Jerusalem:
Iran was “wasting time… not meeting deadlines” on US restrictions overs its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, Israel Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar told NDTV Monday evening, as he explained the triggers behind joint US-Israel strikes that began 72 hours earlier.
Sa’ar told NDTV US-Israeli intelligence also said Tehran was getting ready to transfer key aspects of nuclear and ballistic missile facilities, technologies, and resources to underground installations – built so deep neither the US nor Israel could effectively strike them from the air.
“Those who conduct the negotiations, the Americans themselves, concluded that Iran, as usual, is wasting time, i.e., not meeting American red lines with regard to the nuclear programme… with regard to the ballistic missiles programme,” Sa’ar said.
“(And) we knew that in a very short time Iran was going to put all its nuclear programme details inside very deep underground installations… which not Israel and not America could hit effectively from the air. They planned to do the same thing with ballistic missile production.”
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