Increasingly desperate to insinuate himself into international Iran news
ahead of an upcoming election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu claimed Monday to have suddenly discovered a secret Iranian nuclear weapons site.
There’s a big hole in this story, however, and that’s evidence. Israel
has no evidence of the site beyond Netanyahu’s say-so, and even he
concedes that no evidence exists anymore, since he’s accusing Iran of destroying the site months ago.
Even for an Israeli accusation against Iran, this is pretty flimsy,
since if the site existed, Iran would’ve had no reason to think it’d be
discovered months later. Even then, that Iran demolished a building is
hardly a smoking gun.
Iranian FM Javad Zarif dismissed the accusation, of course, saying “the possessor of real nukes cries wolf.” Israel is the lone nuclear power in the Middle East.
