Exclusive: Maj.-Gen. (res.) Aharon Ze’evi Farkash fears an attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons program may be imminent but would be premature and lack the necessary international legitimacy. So worried that he decided this week to break his longstanding silence on Iran and to share his concerns with the world. As head of Military Intelligence from 2001 to 2006, Farkash is intimately familiar with Iran’s nuclear program and oversaw a large part of the intelligence work done in 2002 that led to the concrete evidence Israel had been looking for to prove that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon. He was later sent by prime minister Ariel Sharon on a number of diplomatic missions throughout Europe to present Israel’s smoking gun. What prompted Farkash to speak out this week? A concern that an Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities could take place within the near future, a move that he says would be premature. Source: The Coming Crisis
