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Summary If Iran obtains nuclear weapons it will not use them against Israel or any other country, says Barak
Iran will not drop a nuclear bomb on Israel, “not on us, not on any other neighbour,” Barak said. Israeli politicians including Netanyahu have repeatedly raised the spectre of a nuclear attack by Iran to call for international pressure to halt the Islamic Republics nuclear programme.Tehran insists the programme is solely for civil nuclear power and medical purposes, but Israel and many Western governments fear it masks a weapons drive. Barak said there was little sign that Tehran would use weapons even if they obtained them, but he also described the Iranian regime as unpredictable, acknowledging it was often difficult to tell how they would behave.Barak criticised statements, including by Netanyahu, comparing the threat Iran poses to Israel with the situation that faced German in 1938, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II.
