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White House Aid: Netanyahu Cry about Iran N-Program Empty

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A principal White House aide said "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cry about Iran seeking to build nuclear weapons is empty.

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not a subtle man. When he has an objective in mind, he is not above resorting to hyperbole, exaggeration, or apocalyptic scenarios to make his point. He has been crying wolf nearly as long as he has been in politics. For a very good reason: It works. And it works. And it works," wrote Gary Sick on the CNN website.
Sick served on the US National Security Council under US Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

Also, a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University, a member of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York, and founding chair of its advisory committee on the Middle East and North Africa, Sick added "Unlike the boy in the story who lost credibility when he sounded the alarm one time too many, each new iteration by Mr. Netanyahu is greeted with nods of grave concern."

The aide mentioned that the "latest edition of this long-running show" by Netanyahu was on the CBS News Network's ‘Face the Nation' last Sunday, when the "Israeli" prime minister said Iranian President-elect Hassan Rohani will seek to "build a bomb."

"More than 20 years ago, Mr. Netanyahu solemnly informed us that, unless someone intervened, Iran would have a nuclear weapon within five years... Almost every year since the early 1990s, senior political figures, intelligence specialists and respected commentators have assured us that Iran would surely have a nuclear weapon in three to five years, sometimes less, unless Iran were forced to stop...," Sick went on to say.
White House Aid: Netanyahu Cry about Iran N-Program Empty

The senior research scholar further said, "It is not hard to understand the logic of this assertion," pointing to the "Israeli" nuclear weapons program, which yielded nuclear bombs "in absolute secrecy in only a few years."
According to Sick, the "Israeli" nuclear weapons program was followed by "South Africa, India, [and] even poor Pakistan with virtually no heavy industrial base."
On the other hand, Iran, which is "endowed with a robust industrial base, exceptional engineering universities, a well-educated population... and has no nuclear weapon," he noted.

He further noted "just as all US intelligence services have confirmed, Iran does not intend to build nuclear weapons.
"Mr. Netanyahu did not mention that in his TV appearance," Sick said, adding, "Instead, he was digging up his talking points from another crisis point in the past."

The former White House aide pointed to the election of Rohani and his upcoming inauguration, and said, "We have a choice between the frayed talking points of the past,... or toward a newly energized diplomatic initiative that offers" a way out of the Western impasse over Iran's nuclear energy program.

Source: CNN, edited by website team