Fox News senior strategic analyst Jack Keane on Iran nuclear situation following killing of nuclear scientist.
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Over to you, PETE
Pete, Irans Supreme Leader,
vowing, definitive punishment for
those involved in the
assassination of Irans top
military scientist believed to
be linked to Irans nuclear
program.
This comes as the Pentagon
orders. The USS Numb miss back to
the Nimitz back to the
Persian Gulf
lets, bring in Fox NEWS, senior
strategic analyst and retired
four STAR General Jack Coon to
weigh in Jack Keane to weigh
in
when you look at this
assassination that we believe
was likely done by the Israelis.
What is the impact of this?
Well, I think clearly what
theyre trying to say the
Israelis. Certainly they have
intelligence that were not
privy to have publicly so the
United States is sharing that
with them.
The Israelis have always
believed, and they have the
evidence to prove it that IRAN
really intends to build a
nuclear weapon.
They went into Tehran in two thousand and eighteen
in January and cleaned out a
warehouse of classified
information that they brought
back to TEL Aviv, and it
revealed absolutely that IRAN is
developing nuclear weapons and
and they fully intend to despite
the nuclear deal
so thats really the issue here.
What the Israelis have attempted
to do, PETE is below the level
of conflict delay the
development of these weapons as
much as possible,
and it explains why theres
explosions taking place all over
IRAN in the last year to include
one at that stands, which is a
uranium enrichment facility,
widely believed to be the Mossad
doing this in an espionage
campaign, along with iranian
resistance groups.
Why
to slow down the development of
their nuclear enterprise
PETE for Israel, its
existential
it may be academic for others,
but IRAN has said quite clearly
what they would do with a
nuclear weapon.
Now theyre saying theyre
going to retaliate,
do you believe itll be
significant or something they
can just use for internal
propaganda to make it look like
they did
well, I think the election
certainly will have an impact on
the Iranians.
They never really significantly
are retaliated for Qassem
Soleimani being killed by the
Trump Administration last
January
PETE Correct,
and that is because they
wanted to see the outcome of the
election
now. It appears that were
heading towards a Biden
presidency and I believe they
will meterrer their response
because meter their response,
because the one thing they dont
want to do is with a new
administration, so poison, the
well that theyre not going to
be able to get the sanction
relief that they believe this
administration will give them
the.
So I suspect that will cause
them to limit their response
somewhat.
They dont want to walk up the
ladder of escalation to that
degree, with a new administration
and therefore put any
negotiated deal off the table,
PETE so potentially lob a few
missiles and say it was revenge
and move on to see if they can
get a better deal and move
toward a bomb which is
ultimately what we know they
want.
Now. Not everyone agrees. It was
a good move. In fact, Ex CIA
director John Brennan said this.
This was a criminal act and
highly reckless.
It risks, lethal retaliation and
a new round of regional
conflict.
Iranian leaders would be wise to
wait for the return of
responsible leadership to resist
the urge to respond against
perceived culprits.
Was this a criminal act?
He probably would have said the
same thing about killing Qassem
Soleimani
thats, pretty extraordinary,
to say something like that
in the face of what Israel is
dealing with IRAN, IRAN is a
threat to the United States.
Theyve proven that
theyve blown up our embassies,
theyve killed our soldiers in
Iraq. Theyve killed thousands
of us in forty years, but theyre
not an existential threat,
nuclear weapons in their hands
with ballistic missiles and the
continuous and repeated threat
to destroy the astronaut of
Israel. Iran is an existential
threat to the survival of of
Israel.
That is why their determination
and resolve is so different and
im stunned that a former CIA
director would not recognize
this level of intensity and
determination for what it really
is is to protect the security
of the israeli people
PETE. He knows better and he
knows it
General Jack Keane. Thank you
very much for your time.
We appreciate it.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-29.