Fmr. IDF Spox: For 20 Years, Iranians Have Used Negotiations as a ‘Disguise for Their Nuclear Weapons Program’

RUSH EXCERPT:
CORNICUS: "Well, I mean, it‘s always good to keep open channels of communication and to understand where parties to a conflict or a debate where they have their red lines, that‘s always good, even as there‘s fighting going on. So I think there is a point there. But I think reality on the ground, you know, after about 20 years of negotiations and, you know, the Iranians, to their credit, have been very cunning and have used negotiations as a disguise for their nuclear weapons program and basically protected themselves with negotiations while they have stalled for time. And finally, the state of Israel said, well, we‘re not going to have that anymore. There‘s absolutely no justification for Iranians to be enriching on Iranian soil if they want a nuclear civilian program, they have it at bushehr and they can import enriched material from the Russians as they do, and that‘s it. You‘re not going to have the ability to develop nuclear bombs on Iranian soil. And if they enrich, then they can eventually make that. And Israel isn‘t going to allow it. And now we have, you know, many years various American administrations, three different American presidents, two Democrats, one Republican has said very clearly, the Iranians are not going to allow to have a nuclear bomb. Enrichment equals the capacity to develop a nuclear weapon. So that is where it lies. And that is what Israel is chipping away. And to the Iranian spokesperson that you interviewed, I mean, soon they‘re going to be out of options. And the more they insist on enrichment, which they are not going to be allowed to have, the bigger the risks for the regime and the higher the stakes for additional targets that I think will come into the scope and the realm of what‘s being discussed from an Israeli perspective."