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International Former Israeli Spy Chief Rejects Parts of Netanyahu Speech

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Dagan is a pretty straight forward kind of guy and not afraid to speak his thoughts.

Associated Press said:
A former chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency on Friday rejected claims made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his contentious address to Congress about Iran's nuclear program.

In an interview aired on Channel 2 TV, Meir Dagan questioned Netanyahu's claim that the deal under negotiation with world powers would allow Iran to create a nuclear weapon within a year or less.

"Bullshit," Dagan said. "The time is longer than what he describes."

Dagan also rejected Netanyahu's assertion that Iran's intercontinental ballistic missile program could allow it to deliver a nuclear arsenal to "every part of the United States."

"The missiles cannot reach the U.S.," Dagan said. When asked if Netanyahu does not know that, Dagan replied: "He knows. So what?"

Channel 2 showed Dagan making the comments as he watched Netanyahu's televised speech to Congress.

When Netanyahu said that "the Jewish people can defend ourselves," Dagan said: "That is a threat of attack."

Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, of Netanyahu's Likud Party, told Channel 2 that he rejected many of Dagan's assertions.

Dagan has been a fierce critic of Netanyahu's approach to Iran, emerging as a key opponent of a potential Israeli military attack against its nuclear facilities. He has said Netanyahu's trip to Washington, over White House objections, was pointless and counterproductive.

Dagan directed the Mossad from 2002 to 2010, a period when it reportedly carried out covert attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists and unleashed cyberattacks that delayed Iran's progression toward a bomb.

Last week, Dagan told an Israeli daily that "the person who has caused the greatest strategic damage to Israel on the Iranian issue is the prime minister."
 

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its amazing how much drama and violence is going on in these areas it's almost to much I wonder if they'll ever be peace the only way to make a true differences is maybe to disarm these people but it seems like gun companies in various countries make a lot of money off the middle east.
 
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