US Hints to Israel’s Gantz It’s Preparing Military Option Against Iran

Anti-War – by Dave DeCamp

An Israeli official said that the US hinted it was preparing a military option against Iran during a meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Friday, The Times of Israel reported. 

The Israeli official said that Gantz told Sullivan that Israel “needs” the US to have a credible military option against Iran. The meeting came as Washington and Tehran are engaged in negotiations to revive the nuclear deal.

The official said that Gantz received “good hints” that the US was preparing a military option. The official didn’t offer details but said the idea of the military option that Israel wants would be to get Iran to make more concessions in negotiations. If not, the US could potentially take military action against the Islamic Republic alongside Israel.

Gantz expressed his opposition to the nuclear deal in the meeting with Sullivan, and the Israelis are stepping up pressure on the Biden administration to abandon the talks. As part of the pressure campaign, the head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, David Barnea, is heading to Washington next week.

Barnea is expected to brief members of the House and Senate intelligence committees on Israel’s opposition to reviving the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. He will also meet with CIA Director William Burns and other Biden administration officials.

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid slammed the EU’s recent proposal to revive the JCPOA, calling it a “bad deal.” Iran is currently reviewing the US response to the EU proposal, which came after Tehran gave a response of its own.

Lapid said that the EU proposal is not something President Biden said he would pursue during his trip to Israel in July. “We told the Americans: ‘This is not what President Biden wanted.’ This is not what he talked about during his visit to the country,” he said.

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3 thoughts on “US Hints to Israel’s Gantz It’s Preparing Military Option Against Iran

  1. Parenthesis mine, re: “The Israeli official said that (Israeli Defense Minister) Gantz told Sullivan that Israel ‘needs’ the US to have a credible military option against Iran.”

    Imagine somebody coming into your house and saying, “You need to do this, or you need to do that!!”

    And again, parenthesis mine, re: “Barnea (head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency) is expected to brief members of the House and Senate intelligence committees on Israel’s opposition to reviving the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. He will also meet with CIA Director William Burns and other Biden administration officials.”

    They don’t even try to hide it anymore.

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      1. Can’t count how many times I’ve been called that. Guess it comes with the territory.

        And where is that particular “territory?” Seems it’s woven right smack into our TEN ARTICLES. It’s a wild territory that can’t tolerate seeds of surveillance, subservience, or subjugation, a territory only tamed by responsible liberty.

        Sticks and stones… 🙂

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