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Israel Must Be Able to Keep Iran in Check
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - Nothing will stop Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, so Israel must work on a deterrent capability to keep Iran in check, former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit told the Jerusalem Post. Shavit served in the Mossad for 32 years and was director from 1989 to 1996. He knows the Iranian people from living in Iran in the mid-1960s for 18 months, and from cooperating with pre-Islamic Republic Iranian intelligence while in Kurdistan in 1973. "They are an empire, and they think of themselves as an empire.... They look down on Arabs. They never forgave the Arab conquest" and Arab actions to erase their Persian heritage. Iran "wants to get back to what it was." "I have no doubt that Iran is continuing to work today, as we speak, to develop nuclear capabilities. They are doing it clandestinely to avoid provoking the U.S. and the rest of the world....We need to prepare for the day Iran says they have it. I don't say this so we should attack preemptively; rather, so we should have deterrence. They should know it is not worth" making trouble for Israel.