MOSSAD And The Iranian Nuclear Threat

"The scientists’ motivations were all different."

"Mossad found out what they deeply wanted in their lives and offered it to them."

"There was an inner circle of scientists who knew more about the operation, and an outer circle who helped out but had less information."

"All of them are very safe today."

Unnamed source

 

"Unlike in the previous rounds of talks, Britain is currently holding the strongest line. This is very much appreciated by Israel, as there is a sense that the Americans are so desperate to return to the deal that they would be too soft." 

"However, it is quite clear that Britain and the rest of the international community still sees negotiation as the most effective track to rein in Iranian ambitions."

"Israel is not convinced that this will be enough, and also doubt that more problematic partners, like Russia and China, will be able to hold same line."

"Therefore, the credibility of the threat from Israel needs to be enhanced, reiterated and reimposed, as part of a dual effort to put real pressure on Iranians."

"In terms of geopolitics, that is the message that these operations are sending to the international community."

Richard Pater, Executive Director, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom)

Blown up: Iran's Natanz nuclear plant, seen in 2007  (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

The Israeli secret service knows that you can have all the technological advantages in the world to enable the process of acquiring knowledge of the machinations of other countries relating to their military plans, to unlock the  secret blueprints they keep to themselves irrespective of the facade presented to the outside world, but there are no assets for recovery of inside realities quite like the effectiveness and efficiency of a core of insider recruits whose data delivery leaves no room for guesswork.

 

Humint -- human intelligence -- is the ultimate in revealing the plans of a country derived from its own inner circles of those in the know.

Insider assistance in carrying through plans of sabotage to set back the agenda of government agencies is another invaluable tool, made all that more approachable and successful with the willing aid of inside intelligence and cooperation. When the actions of insiders in working against the interests of the state are revealed, they pay a stiff penalty; their commitment to undermining the resources of their own country owes much to their dissatisfaction with the direction that country is heading in. Conscience and sympathy are great aids in deception.

It is a secret to no one that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been working toward attaining nuclear weapons. It is just that aspiration, linked to Tehran's Ayatollahs' support of Islamist terrorism fomenting disorder and violent atrocities on behalf of the Republic's determination to surmount resistance to its plans of Shi'ite conquest and Persian control in a Sunni-majority region of Arab states that drew the attention of the West to its malign purpose. The UN's IAEA's efforts at monitoring the Revolutionary Iranian Guard Corps' uranium enrichment program stems from the threat they pose to the region and the wider world.

 

But the one regional state that is indelibly in the crosshairs of the Republic's lethal weaponry of mass destruction is undeniably Israel. The message delivered time and again, publicly and with venomous intent is the promise to obliterate Israel's presence from the Middle East. When fundamentalist extremists are convinced that they have been selected by an all-powerful heavenly entity to furnish the means by which a perceived enemy can be extinguished, rational arguments based on human rights have no impact.

 

The Jewish state knows full well from historical events that it can rely on no other forces than its own for protection from extermination. Its secret services know how to convince others, vulnerable to uncertainty over the morals involved in human rights violations that they have an obligation and a part to play in overcoming the unconscionable plans of dictators. And because Iran is just such a theistic dictatorship, its people are restive and among them those in elite situations of command who are prepared to intervene.

 

The Mossad spy agency is renowned for its cultivated professionalism in intelligence gathering. And it relies upon the secretive collaboration of the dissatisfied to find purpose in aiding and abetting the downfall of their own governments who have failed abysmally the most basic tests of human decency.

A number of Iranian scientists working in the Republic's structures devoted to nuclear development acceded to requests for cooperation. They were, however, duped into believing that it was a collaboration on their part with Iranian dissident groups, not with an arm of a foreign government they would be working with.

 

In the process however, they were tasked with smuggling explosives into the secure and highly protected underground vaults of Iran's nuclear emplacements. In April, a blast destroyed the Natanz plant's independent internal power system meant to energize centrifuges enriching uranium in the protected underground reinforced concrete bunker. That blast represented the second time in a year the base was attacked, by what other countries' security officials identify as an Israeli project. 

It was not, after all, exiled Iranian dissidents with whom these collaborative insiders worked, but with Israel. In some instances the explosives were dropped into the facility by drones while allied components were smuggled through security in catering trucks, reported The Jewish Chronicle, which broke the story. Another July 2020 explosion was the work of explosives hidden in building materials that formed part of the building construction a year earlier.

A motorcycle-size quadcopter drone carried out a bombing raid on the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company in Karaj in June, north of Tehran. When the news was revealed to the public eye, Israel, with its policy of never claiming ownership of such events, made no comment. Attacks on the Natanz plant, according to Iran's acknowledgement, had the effect of setting its nuclear program back months. An ongoing search for the Iranians suspected of involvement in the operation, now fugitives, was foiled, since they are said to have been spirited to safety by Mossad agents.

Tehran, while spuriously claiming it has no interests in obtaining nuclear weapons, has been steadily increasing levels to which it enriches uranium far beyond the limit set by the Nuclear Agreement it signed in 2015, levels that outside nuclear scientists agree has only one application, and that would be a military application. "From a technical standpoint, the enemy's plan was rather beautiful", said head of the Iranian parliamentary energy committee, Fereydoon Abbasi Davani rashly.

A map of north Iran showing the location of Mossad’s first assaults on Natanz and quadcopter attack on Karaj (Photo: GETTY IMAGES, ASINGUARDS, YOUTUBE. Illustration: Sheree Fadil)

 

Canada Has Fumbled and Fallen

"We need to take stock of why we didn't get it. It is embarrassing because it really is a bit of a wake-up call for many of us Canadians who kind of thought, 'Well, why wouldn't they want us?' We're really internationalized. We have this wonderful commitment to multilateralism, we feel like we embody the United Nations' spirit of diversity and inclusion in this country."

"I think there's merit in being there. We can absolutely talk about the question of whether or not we had the chops to be at the table, or whether or not we had the investment in organization and all the other things to go into consideration of our bids, such as our official development assistance, peacekeeping and all the rest."
"But the merit of being at the table to me is still very much there. And organizations are only as good as the people who get engaged in them."
"We have wonderful rhetoric, wonderful ideas … and at the end of the day we really hope that others just, you know, bask in the glory of our wonderful ideas with very little money. And that's not how the international system works."
University of Waterloo professor Bessma Momani, senior fellow, Centre for International Governance and Innovation

"It would force us, over and over, to take defined positions when the strategy often for Canada is to choose the areas where we want to weigh in. We have made significant contributions to multilateral institutions in focused ways."

"I really think we're making a big mistake here if we treat this as any kind of referendum on how Canada is viewed in the world. I don't think it tells us anything about the way we're regarded in the world."

"So really, the argument I'm making is we were focused on the wrong institution and the wrong part of the UN system."

Janice Stein, professor, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

The Security Council meets on Oct. 24, 2019, at United Nations headquarters. Canada was beat out by Norway and Ireland this week in its bid for a temporary seat on the Security Council. Mary Altaffer/AP/The Canadian Press

"Canada lost for many reasons. One of them was because of our government’s timidity. It chose to say as little as possible on many of the most emotive issues of the day, lest it offend a country and lose its vote."
"Until a few weeks ago, it was taboo for ministers to even utter the word “Taiwan.” On importing 5G technologies from China, we have seemed paralyzed long after our security agencies and most of our allies have declared they want nothing to do with it."
"Such a craven approach was a hopeless strategy to justify why Canada should have a place in the Security Council chamber."
"The reality laid bare by this stark rebuke is that Canada is hamstrung by a preachy foreign policy that has latterly become heavily based on imposing our domestic cultural orthodoxies on others. This has made us a preening nag, a bore and — as the vote by the 190-odd countries that make up the United Nations General Assembly demonstrates — largely irrelevant, except to ourselves."
"The government’s pious sanctimony has become almost cult-like since Trudeau foolishly declared that 'Canada is back', without providing a road map to explain where we had been or where we’re going."
Matthew Fisher, Columnist, Global News



"To this country's friends all around the world, many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world."
"Well, I have a simple message for you. On behalf of 35-million Canadians: we're back."
Justin Trudeau, November 2015

Most Canadians had no idea that Canada had ever gone away; they were under the impression that their Canada was hale and whole. But the Liberal Party of Canada under its leader Justin Trudeau insisted that Canada, governed by the Conservative Party under the leadership of Prime Minister Steven Harper had lost its way. Mind, Mr. Harper was not averse to informing Russia's Vladimir Putin at a then-G8 meeting that he needed to 'get out' of Ukraine's Crimea after Moscow under his direction had annexed it.

Senegal's President Macky Sall, left, walks alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during an official visit in Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 12, 2020. The visit was part of the Trudeau's government's charm campaign for a seat on the UN Security Council. (Cheikh A.T/The Associated Press)

Whereas, in his zeal to gain votes for Canada's bid under the Liberal government to succeed in Justin Trudeau's vanity project to gain a temporary seat in the revolving UN Security Council, Mr. Trudeau managed to mislay his progressive stance on human rights as he stood smiling chummily beside Senegal's president as he spoke of his country's maximum penalty laws against its LGBTQ community. Not a word of objection passed the discreet lips of Canada's human rights champion on that occasion.

Canada's formal relationship with three of the most powerful members of the permanent Security Council nations is fraught with tension. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is persona-non-grata in Russia; so much for strained relations, while President Trump is somewhat disgruntled with Justin Trudeau's showmanship of disdain for the American president in a rather egregious dishevelment of nation-to-nation diplomacy, and caught in the net of a trade war between the U.S. and China; that nation of abusive human rights wouldn't help Canada to a lift on a rescue mission.

Canada has not stood very tall for human rights, justice and the rule of law in its relationship with Beijing, preferring to pursue genteel diplomacy and not rock the boat too strenuously, despite the effective state kidnapping of two Canadian citizens on trumped-up claims of national security in charging the two with espionage and clamping them in prison, denying them access to lawyers, keeping them incommunicado, subjecting them to unsubtle psychological torture techniques. 

Spending millions on bribing other UN member-countries to pledge a vote for Canada against the two other competitors for the two open seats, Norway and Ireland ... pledging millions in foreign aid, making common cause with dictators while throwing the human rights interests of collegial countries to the winds of chance, Canada did not do itself proud in abasing itself in unctuous servility to those nations whose record of abuses and anti-democratic values drew no credit on Canada. 

A security barrier that Israel erected to reduce the level of violence it had experienced for years became an unwieldy tool of recrimination on the part of Canada joining the usual anti-Israel crew in the United Nations to denounce a fellow democracy, along with the traditional Arab League and aligned critics to curry favour with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation nations in yet another condemnation of the Jewish state.

Trudeau and the Liberal government were happy to sell Canada's moral values out for a mess of pottage that they proffered in a grand sacrifice to be recognized by petty dictators and human rights abusers as being entitled to that elusive, vanity-project seat to satisfy glad-handing, back-slapping Justin Trudeau, happily smirking that 'Canada is back'. Only it failed to succeed. And Trudeau, flipping aside any embarrassment for Canada he has once again engendered on the world stage, carries on, business as usual.

The business at the present time being the continued erosion of parliamentary democracy in Canada under the guise of necessity because of the general threat of infection during the emergency response to SARS-CoV-2, making it unsafe for Parliament to assemble physically in the House of Commons' temporary quarters, recalling Members of Parliament back to Ottawa, in preference to holding Internet interfaces to conduct the nation's business and avoid inconvenient questions from the official opposition.

This, while Canada begins to open up, and children will be returning to the classroom, businesses will be re-opening, public arenas where people will gather will resume to a degree returning the country's public and private life to a version of normalcy, while it remains 'unsafe' for the governing Liberal Party to entertain thoughts of resuming Parliament as it is meant to be. And where Justin Trudeau saw fit to expose himself to potential infection, attending a crowded Black Lives Matter protest in his usual virtue-signalling style.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the first hybrid parliament committee in the House of Commons during the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronic voting has been touted as a way resume normal operations in the Commons without all 338 MPs needing to travel to Ottawa. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

The Rush to Join a Dysfunctional, Corrupt World Organization

"We will phone member states to ensure they got out to vote, a lot like a usual election. We'll want to make sure that the voters that we've identified as supporting Canada go out and express their vote."

"Haiti had a peacekeeping mission from 2004 to 2020 and it was focused on security and on human rights, but very little focus on development."

"In Sub-Saharan Africa, you have 70 percent of the population that is below 30 years old. Half of that population is without an occupation even before the pandemic. This is a big security issue."

"If that multilateral world doesn't exist, then you're in a situation where only the strongest will prevail. And we know where it leads, because we're only a middle power."

"When you're around that table, you are more influential, if you're more influential, you've more relevant and if you're more relevant, that will represent opportunities for Canada."

Marc-Andre Blanchard, Canada's permanent representative at the United Nations

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the situation in Venezuela in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., in January 2019. Canada is vying with Ireland and Norway for two open seats at the council, which will be allocated in a vote on June 17. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)

Next Wednesday UN ambassadors will begin voting at the General Assembly in groups, to avoid crowding, in respect of the need for social distancing in the time of COVID-19. They will be voting to bring into the two-year temporary revolving Security Council one candidate from the competing countries in this vote; Ireland, Norway or Canada to sit on the 15-member council that complements the permanent Security Council, comprised of the United States, Russia, France, Great Britain and China.

"We know that engaging around the world is important both for Canadians' health and well-being, but also for the good of our economy."

"Even as some of our allies, including the United States, seem to withdraw from the world, Canada is engaging."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

"Them [sic] looking at the UN Security Council seat without looking at Canada's foreign policy, and understanding where we are in the world, and what our relationship with our allies and our adversaries alike should be, means that they didn't know what they were going after."

"Justin Trudeau has made some really damaging actions to our relationship and eroded our reputation on the world stage. We don't know what they're willing to trade away to get the seat."

Leona Alleslev, Opposition Conservative Member of Parliament

This would be Justin Trudeau's crowning achievement, his legacy project, his on begging, borrowing or buying votes to bring Canada to a seat on the UN Security Council. This is not a project supported by most Canadians, to whom the very project itself is simply a yawn, acknowledging yet another vanity project by a politician who revels in attention-getting and absurd declarations such as Canada, under his guardianship has 'returned'. What it has returned to is the usual Liberal brand of hoodwinking the electorate, with a special Trudeau touch of cynical sanctimony.

But this project to attain a two-year seat is dear to this man's idea of elevating himself in the esteem of the movers and shakers in the world body, to attain a level of influence and the aura of power that Justin Trudeau feels should be accorded him. He has himself personally taken the time and trouble to speak with as many world leaders in the past weeks as he could possibly tuck into a schedule that includes having his government tackle critical issues such as the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on Canada, both in medical terms and economic.

There are ongoing protests headed by Black Lives Matter resulting from the murder of George Floyd in the United States, and the allied issues of the desecration of national monuments, history's heroes now revealed by Indigenous and Black groups to be racists. The icons of Canadian history, according to the protest groups, preyed on native populations, were bigots and racists and their statuary must come down, public institutions such as schools, libraries, municipal buildings, street names, must be dismantled, their memories erased.

Canada's ongoing problems with the United States in trade issues, with Saudi Arabia, in arousing the Kingdom's ire over perceived interference in its human rights record, its problems with China whose human rights record is rarely raised, but when an issue such as a request through an American court of justice for the extradition under an agreement between Canada and the U.S. saw China's tech giant Huawei's CFO arrested on a U.S.warrant, spurring China to kidnap two Canadians doing business in China.

None of these issues, apparently, occupy too much time and energy for the prime minister, that he is unable to muster gaps of opportunistic time to engage in cajoling, jollying, and pleading and bribing sometimes unsavoury governments to cast a vote for Canada's bid in the U.S. Both Ireland and Norway, the other two candidates for the vacant seat, have somewhat greater sway in the corridors of the UN. Both give a higher percentage of their GDP to global equity support, and are more involved in UN peacekeeping.

The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, placed Trudeau's eagerness not to be too morally or ethically particular about where his votes come from in context, when Nikki Haley in outrage over an executive order from Justin Trudeau to Canada's UN representative to have it on record that Canada supported an anti-Israel motion at the United Nations last year, that he prepared himself to dance with the devil to achieve his end.

Israel, after all, swings one vote, whereas the Organization of Islamic Cooperation can be counted on for at the very least the votes of 53 countries, not to discount the influence the OIC has with the Non-Aligned group of countries within the UN which curries favour with the Arab League and the OIC. But no cost to Canada's moral dignity is too dear to pay for Junior Trudeau's vanity project to sit with the Big Boys of Global authority. For he believes that the world needs more Trudeau, which he deliberately conflates with Canada.

Ms. Alleslev points out the embarrassment on the world stage that Canada suffered with Trudeau's visits to India, or how petty and childish his behaviour was seen during the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks as he stalled negotiations and insisted on his version of worker equality, female entitlements and LGBTQ-2 and union issues be considered. According to Canada's Blanchard, Canada's focus is on economic security issues, to rectify the UN's focus on short-term security needs, ignoring long-term economic needs that play into violence and chaos.

Haiti, he points out, still sees ten percent of its population malnourished, with 40 percent dependent on humanitarian assistance. Canada, on the other hand, the sterling representation of a wealthy nation where equality of opportunity is paramount, guaranteeing everyone the chance to live a full and happy and healthy life, has hundreds of food banks to give aid and assistance to the homeless, to the unemployed, to welfare recipients and people living under the poverty line.

This is the first prime minister who has managed to suspend democracy in Canada. He has effectively dismissed the House of Commons. Parliament no longer sits for the purpose for which it was designed, allowing this government and this prime minister to simply proceed with initiatives they feel will benefit them, over the needs of Canadians. He has stilled his critics from the House of Commons by disallowing them the opportunity to question his government's decision-making while he ransacks the nation's economy.

This is tyranny, not democracy. And he would, in fact, fit right in with many of the other members of the Security Council, both temporary and permanent. 

Senegal's President Macky Sall, left, walks alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after arriving at the presidential palace in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Trudeau received Senegal's support for a seat on the UN Security Council. (Cheikh A.T/The Associated Press)