President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared at a news conference at the White House on Sept. 10, 2010, a time when both countries began to split over the best means to keep Iran from an atomic bomb. PHOTO: JASON REED/REUTERS
Distrust set allies to snoop on each other after split over Iran nuclear deal; each kept secrets.
The U.S. closely monitored Israel’s military bases and eavesdropped on secret communications in 2012, fearing its longtime ally might try to carry out a strike on Fordow, Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facility.
Nerves frayed at the White House after senior officials learned Israeli aircraft had flown in and out of Iran in what some believed was a dry run for a commando raid on the site. Worried that Israel might ignite a regional war, the White House sent a second aircraft carrier to the region and readied attack aircraft, a senior U.S. official said, “in case all hell broke loose.”
The two countries, nursing a mutual distrust, each had something to hide. U.S. officials hoped to restrain Israel long enough to advance negotiations on a nuclear deal with Iran that the U.S. had launched in secret. U.S. officials saw Israel’s strike preparations as an attempt to usurp American foreign policy.
WNU Editor: This is a must read post from the WSJ. It is a very comprehensive analysis on U.S. - Israeli intelligence cooperation (or lack of) on Iran, and it exposes how bad U.S. - Israeli relations have become during President Obama's term in office. There are also a number of classified revelations in this post .... which I am sure the Israelis are not happy to be reading about it in the Wall Street Journal.
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