From the New York Times. I'm Michael borrow this the deal Raj acted pursuit of technology that good the nuclear weapons? that is to put a region already known for instability and violence the shadow of a nuclear holocaust, almost two decades the United States and Israel have tried to stop IRAN from developing nuclear weapons. The Iraq Red Mosque, rethought by all possible means israeli prime ministers, including Benjamin Netanyahu. The international community must stop IRAN before it's too late have pushed for military strike on IRAN to end the nuclear threat, a prospect long opposed by? U S, presidents,

who fear it would drag the? U S into war today in twenty ten after two years of negotiations that fear helped prompt President Obama to seek a diplomatic alternative, a comprehensive, long term deal with it no prevented from obtaining a nuclear one. Neuron nuclear John ideals. Detested by Netanyahu that he vowed to block this deal doesn't make peace more largely. It makes war more like last year, then you got what he wanted. I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the ran nuclear deal when President Trump pulled out of the historic agreement- locking Israel, the? U S and IRAN in a ten stand off. It didn't bring com. It didn't bring peace and it never will

That is the commonly understood story of how we got to this moment today. Months of reporting and dozens of interviews by my colleagues more closely and Ronan Bergmann have revealed a secret history and shown how close we came to war It's Friday September sixth mark we're gonna talk about four of the key findings from your reporting. Where should we start where the most interesting findings is that Netanyahu? push for war may have helped led Obama toward a nuclear deal with IRAN, that Netanyahu despised and how so exactly

Obama Netanyahu come to power right around the same time, the beginning of two thousand and nine and from the beginning, they ve got a pretty bad relationship it is, I believe, in the interests not only of the palace, yes, but also the Israelis and the United and the international community to achieve a two state solution. Obama is really pushing Netanyahu on the issue of palestinian peace. Using settlements in the West Bank. Iran openly calls for our destruction unacceptable Standard and Netanyahu really wants to push the issue of Iran and the IRAN friend, I am It's him.

The view of our administration, that IRAN is a country of extraordinary history and extraordinary potential that we want them to be fulfilled. Member of the international community? The? U S and Israel agree on a covert campaign to try to sabotage the Iranian. Clear Programme and it works for a period of time, but it starts reaching diminished. Turns around two thousand nine two thousand and ten, and it really then begins this question of. Will then what and that's where both net yeah, and a hood Brok who was kind of legendary figure in the country. He was a hero, and at that time he was the defence minister and one of the leading advocates pushing this idea with the Americans that there needs to be some kind of military action and no option should be removed for from the table. This is our policy

we minute and the is really start preparing for how so will they develop? War plan they start rang training missions that might replicate a strike on IRAN. They send drones with secret base in Azerbaijan to fly into IRAN to take pictures of nuclear facilities and also a kind of, test. The air defenses of around to see whether you know an actual real live attack might work a real provocation. That's right and the U S, watching this their watch. The Israeli. Its into IRAN and because of this growing, mistrust between the two sides there is real question of wool Israel strike, and would they even tell us in advance So the U S is now spying on Israel, either spying on real spying on IRAN and because of this growing apprehension about what Israel my do there is

the decision in the Obama administration to set a diplomatic path totally independent of Israel and So that then leads to in late twenty ten Dennis ROS who's, the head of IRAN policy, the National Security Council, is on a flight to Oman with another White House aid too ain't to begin, the very earliest negotiations for what would ultimately led to the twenty fifteen IRAN nuclear deal. You dont pursue peace, because you know you can a cheap and you don't always engage because you know what the result is going to be, but disengagement produced as a result, you can always predict so it's out of fear that Israel will drag the United States into war that the? U S began. Pursuing a negotiation with IRAN. We talked Dennis Ross and he said absolutely. He said the israeli pressure played a factor in the opening of this.

Diplomatic channels that he was part of, and did Israel understand that these negotiations with IRAN were beginning know there is a conscious decision not to tell Israel and they kind of went to extraordinary lengths to keep a very small circle of people in the know that this diplomatic channel had been, and they even cut out the american ambassador, Israel, Dan Shapiro, who is the main interlocutor with israeli officials? Is money daily and hourly basis and throughout this period of time, they're asking Shapiro. If the? U S is talking with IRAN and he say no they're not and eventually is brought back to Washington and he's told hey that thing you ve been saying to the Israelis. You can't say that anymore because a Sancho, because it's not true and that's it, very interesting finding in our reporting was. This was a real debate Scutcheon in the Obama administration of the weather,

the Israelis in some people. Now think it was a mistake not to tell me why the argument to not tell them was that the stringent, between Netanyahu. Obama had been so fractured that a lot of work certain, including the president himself, that if you told Netanyahu he would leave out the news to try to scuttle any kind of possible deal, and so the stakes were too high to brain. Yahoo into the discussion. Others now say these roads, find out anyway, and by not telling them we made a bad situation even worse. Israel found at anyway in the middle of two thousand and twelve. We find out and reporting the head of massage Israel's intelligence agencies. Goes to Netanyahu, and he says the United States is having his back channel discussions with IRAN and we asked Netanyahu about this and he could aims that he was an angry he sort of suspected it. Then he long thought Obama wanted

do a deal with IRAN in this kind of buttressed that but several other israeli officials we spoke to said they were furious, that this, was, you know Israel's greatest ally, the United States secretly naked shading with Israel is enemy or IRAN, and it was a breach of trust that could never be accepted He saw Obama's mistrust of Netanyahu influences his decision to seek these negotiations with IRAN. The mistrust also prompts the: U S to keep Israel out of the loop. And that leads to nuclear deal that prompts Netanyahu

to completely mistrust the. U S. That's right. This deal demonstrates that american diplomacy can bring about real and meaningful change change that makes our country and the world safer and more secure. What a stunning historic mistake! Israel is not bound by this deal with IRAN, because you continues to seek our destruction We will always defend ourselves, though he so what's your next fighting are reporting shows that Israel was far closer to striking IRAN in twenty twelve than was previously known. What's the evidence of that Netanyahu is trying for some time to get his governed behind the idea of a neuron strike. There's this scene in November, twenty ten, where he gathers all of his top officials to sort of game out

the idea of whether they could do a striking whether they should do a strike and whatnot Fines is pretty much everyone's against accept him and able Brok reporting show about the opposition within his cabinet. What is their argument for continually rejecting The primary argument is that it's not feasible that Israel doesn't have the capacity to do any kind of strike that would deliver a fatal blow to IRAN's nuclear programme. It did not at that time have what was critical. They believed, which is this super powerful bomb, a bunker buster bomb that would have been able to day huh destroy an underground facility in IRAN called foretell? Only the United States had that bomb and Israelis return

get it from the United States in a bomb or refuse to give it, and so the feeling was that this could be a suicide mission with little effect and is pretty interesting. The United States, in a bomb, in particular new about the descent in that area, whose ranks and there's one scene we account in our reporting, where a hood Barak and Ababa are having a meeting and Brok is making his case for why they needed to strike and oh bomber, says yeah, but your own military people don't want it and Veronica. Has this line to obey me? He says yeah, but when they look up, they see us, meaning me a net yo, but when we look up

We only see the sky, meaning we can do whatever we want right, and so this sort of escalates into the summer of twenty twelve, when U S, satellite start picking up what they think are early indications of some kind of an israeli strike. This is just months before Obama's up for reelection vacuum. Iranian met. It's a pleasure to welcome you emerge muslim. We ve known each other for many days, Netanyahu is making no secret that he supports Mitt, Romney Obama's competitive. You said the greatest danger the roof of the Ayatollah regime possessing nuclear weapons capability that I can agree with you more and there's this thought in

It states that maybe Netanyahu would do a strike in the weeks before an election to tie Obama's hands, while that he would have to support it, because electoral politics would determine the United States would have to come to Israel's defence. If is I went to war with IRAN. So there's a lot of complicated things going on and the United States is pretty concerned at that time. That Netanyahu asked might strike in an interview we had with him, he said well, I would have. I was planning on yes before the election. Yes, I was going to do it, but I just could never get the full support of my cabinet some question. Whether Netanyahu really would have pulled it off, but he's told us it was absolutely something he was prepared to do But in the end, even Ehud Barak flips. He decides that a strike so close to the american election could do irreparable damage to the. U S is really

friendship, and he tells us you can't drag a partner into war. This is a fatal blow to Netanyahu's plans to have some kind of strike and it creates a rift. Between Netanyahu and Barrack Debt, today, where the two men are bitter political enemies and that's really, as close as Israel ever got to our knowledge of striking IRAN or their back as a surgeon and president of Howard, university, Doktor, Wean Frederick, leaves Eve. Are tough. His times can lead to strength and change. This is a difficult stormy do it, but it was strengthened in a way that no classroom activity could ever have. I'm only shipper host of the pack has made all the difference I talked to achievers about how their managing the current moment and charging a course for the future find that made all the

prince anywhere. You get your podcast created by Bank of America. Ok Box will give us your third finding from you, affording, despite Obama's Adam in opposition, to a military strike wrong, he hands tromp a highly refined war plan for just that, and why would he did of course remember. We retire about the growing concern in the early years of the Obama administration that Israel might do something might strike and might possibly draw, the United States into a war, and that was one of the things that it led Obama to neglect. A diplomatic solution right will, at the same time, Burma is ordering the Pentagon to develop its own plans for different scenarios and one would be United States

those and strikes around on its own if it needed to another, would be if Israel strikes in the U S guest. On and will what does the United States do, and you know the Pentagon is, Turning to run war games of what might happen if Israel strikes and one of the things that they did was they built a mock up. The underground iranian nuclear facility at Fort. Oh, while they built a market in the western desert of the United States and used that thirty thousand how bunker busting bomb the one that Israel is wanted, but the? U S refused to give them to destroy the facility and they took video of the bombing and Leon fanatic. Then Secretary showed it to a hood Brok as office at the Pentagon. In other words, look at what we can do so why don't you hold one of the things going on was that the United States had to convince the Israelis that they were serious about, not

in IRAN get a nuclear weapon. So in developing these plans they would sometimes briefly Israelis not necessarily on highly classified specifics, but tat. We are doing this to show you that we are really serious, so there's a kind of as one person we talked. You said there is kind of a three way bluff going on The United States and Israel in IRAN or all train the other. No, it's capable of doing things nodded decided that they wanted to do yet, but they had to convince the others but in order for the United States to have a credible bluff, they needed to actually do this. War planning take actual hard measures of deploying ships to the Persian Gulf. Air defence is to act Eyes other aircraft they did deployed around the Middle EAST that they would need if the United States gets

on into war. He may know IRAN is watching those deployments. They know Israel is watching those deployments, so you kind of speak to each other an entirely different language, the language of the military Of course they never use this war plan. Obama goes diplomacy route. So by the time Donald Trump is elected, he's gotten highly different view about how to deal with IRAN and he's got a war plan, the Pentagon than about gave in President Elect Trump. My friend congratulations on being elected president of the United States of America. I am confident that the two of us working closely together will bring the great alliance between our two country to even greater heights. Because of that brings us to the current administration and

its role in the story. What you're last finding here mark we discovered the scope of Netanyahu's pressure campaign to Trump to leave the around nuclear deal and what was the scope of that? Will it? So it was well known, of course, that Trump hated the deal's. What are the dumbest deals? I've ever seen guy. He said it a thousand times as a presidential candidate. The deal with IRAN was at the highest level of income and he, as president was talking about Obama's terrible deal, really stupid leaders, stupidity, but yet you stay in it. For more than a year- and that's because influential figures in his own cabinet were arguing not to leave the deal but to strengthen it, don't get out of it enter Netanyahu President Tromp Donald Sir, and are absolutely the law

to welcome you. We ve known each other for many years and is always good to see if he thinks that Trump can be influence. We understand each other and so much of the things that we wish to accomplish for both our countries. Now, that is to be expected, but then something interesting happens. In the beginning of twenty eighteen Netanyahu, orders a very risky raid in Tehran and were them Assad is sent in to steal from a warehouse the sort of secret archive of IRAN's nuclear programme. To take all of these documents, videos thumb drives etc bring them back to Israel and basically use that as greater leverage to get trump. To get out of the deep and Netanyahu tells Trump beforehand that we're gonna. Do this trump asks them if its risky, but Netanyahu says yes, is risky, but is worth it after the operation happens, Netanyahu comes to the White House

any kind of ways out the findings of the archives and basically says IRAN has been lying about its nuclear programme for twenty years? What makes you think they can be trusted now? Clearly there cheating on the deal, even though the american intelligence community was pretty firm in its findings that IRAN will not actually cheating banana, who continues to work on travel and basically by then Trump is convinced. He decides. I'm not going to continue these negotiations to strengthen the deal I went out and we found that they receive in discussion of having a joint press conference where Netanyahu would reveal the existence of the archives and from put announce he's getting out of the deal. So this one to punch of Netanyahu and Trump together hardening american policy towards That would be an extraordinary scene. It would have been.

And whatever the plans were, it didn't end up happening and yeah, who goes out on his own in late April. Twenty a to announce the existence of God I was actually in Israel. I was in a cab listening to it. We're going to show you something that the world has never seen before tonight. We're going to reveal new and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear? What program that IRAN has been hiding for years from the international community. He is in his full theatrical mode. Iran lied big time talking about the iranian threading, the Knook talking about how they can be trusted and, in a few days time President tromp will make a decision on what to do the nuclear deal, I'm We'll do the right thing for the peace of the world and I think for many people. That speech was seen as

kind of an eleventh hour appeal to Trump to get out of the deal, but in fact we kind of found out that it was already big, the trump was already gonna get out of the deal in part, because he yeah who had discusses. So where does that leave us we'll trump pulling out of the IRAN deal brings us back to the poker game and the three way bluff. Although this time Trump is the new player at the table,. And there's a bet going on in the White House that it can basically cripple around economy so badly with sanctions that IRAN comes back to try to negotiate, wouldn't trumps. My a far better deal for him in the United States. Then Obama did that question for IRAN is. Can they wait Trump out yesterday genes are having a real impact by Maybe in a little over a year there is another can president and I have to worry about Trump. The sanctions and american policy could totally shift for Israel there's a different calculation? They haven't

Eric and President who on one hand, might countenance an israeli strike more than either President Bush or Obama do him, and even if Trumpery negotiate a deal Netanyahu told us this I'm he'd have far more influence. In other words, is real this time around could have a far greater influence on what the the states does with IRAN than they had under a bottle and the stakes of this three way poker game couldn't behind, The authorities in IRAN say they ve shot down what they're calling a? U S, spies drone in the south of the country, so that shows how high the tensions are running. How dangerous the situation really is this? Just last week we covered the efforts, both Hizbollah, in proxy to build a turned at work in Serbia and the Golan Heights are you. I said IRAN was behind attacks on too.

Oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman pensions with IRAN are intensifying president traumas taking all the big fear is that both countries will be running into a war. None of them really want. You see, is real striking All sorts of iranian link target in Lebanon and elsewhere in Iraq is attacked, taking place in Camp Ashraf, in theory overnight, israeli air strikes, hit dozens of iranian targets in northern Syria is Netanyahu's clearly indicating that you know he might push it even further and strike again into around this. We IRAN openly farm You do not open that. By violating the deal it will be. What a blackmail the world debate concessions? reducing the economic pressure on it. We should do the exact opposite Now is the time to increase the pressure. Now is

the time to stand firm now is the time it's all a bluff until its that's right mark thank you very much. Thank you. On Thursday night IRAN said it had stopped honouring a key provision of the twenty fifty nuclear deal in its latest act of death since the? U S abandoned the deal at the urging of Israel. As of now, IRAN said it would stop limiting its nuclear research

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