To the sentence Israel will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East which is summed up in the term the policy of ambiguity another expression has been added in recent years: Israel maintains the right to defend itself. In slight variations, this sentence has been repeatedly stated by Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, following the agreement with Iran that was signed in Geneva onNov. 24.This, if you wish, is a delicate phrasing of an explicit threat on Iran and the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany, orP5+1 forum, that if the agreement that was reached by diplomatic meanswill not be satisfactoryto Netanyahu, Israel will exercisethe right to self-defenseto forcibly stop the Iranian nuclear program. In Netanyahus view and that of US congressmen who side with him, a retreat from the nuclear program requires the closure of the uranium enrichment plant in Fordowand the heavy water reactor in Arak, through which Iran could create plutonium.
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