by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE • June 3, 2022
- The real crime, one that represents a serious breach of the long-standing intelligence-sharing arrangements between the US and Israel, is that one of President Joe Biden’s senior officials has been willing to betray the trust of such a close ally.
- At a time when tensions are already running high between Iran and the West over the stalled nuclear talks, there are quite justifiable concerns in Israel that the leak will prompt Iran to exact revenge by attacking Israeli targets, even if it later transpires that Israel was not responsible for the assassination.
- The timing of the leak also indicates an underlying willingness on the part of the Biden administration to undermine Israel when, in public, the White House is seeking to portray itself as an ally of Israel, as indicated by its recent seeming decision not to remove the IRGC from the US list of designated terrorist organisations.
- As for motivation, it is unclear if the leak was deliberate, to harm Israel, or from not fully appreciating the jeopardy it could potentially cause Israel, an act which would reflect the Biden administration’s profound lack of understanding as to what is at stake with the entire Iran issue.
Pictured: General Hossein Salami, head of the IRGC, attends Khodayee’s funeral in Tehran, on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Nothing better illustrates the Biden administration’s deep-seated antipathy towards Israel than the leaking of highly classified material about the alleged role Israeli intelligence played in the assassination of a top-ranking Iranian terrorist, Colonel Sayad Khodayee, of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC).<
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Nothing better illustrates the Biden administration’s deep-seated antipathy towards the State of Israel than the leaking of highly classified material about the alleged role Israeli intelligence played in the assassination of a top-ranking Iranian terrorist.
For decades, Israel and the US have enjoyed a unique intelligence-sharing relationship whereby the two countries share the most sensitive material on their respective intelligence, security and military operations.
But the deep-seated bond of trust that forms the bedrock of this vital relationship has been seriously compromised as a result of the Biden administration’s egregious decision to leak details of Israel’s alleged involvement in the killing of Colonel Sayad Khodayee, a senior commander in the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC).
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This relationship is vital for America, not so much for Israel. The US leadership class arrogantly and stupidly believes our country is some kind of important power.
Remove the nuclear deterrent and the American military is little more than a mid level power. Furthermore the US has neglected its nuclear arsenal while major powers like Russia and China have upgraded theirs. The US is obviously no serious threat or match for the world’s great powers such as Russia or China. Maybe the US can make their inevitable victories pyric but we aren’t on their level.
Without the US dollar as world reserve currency which is an antiquated relic of WW2 the US is little more than a lower mid level economic power. It certainly doesn’t have the leverage Russia has over Western European nations that Russia has.
Obviously Russia is going to win the war against Ukraine. America is desperate. Our leadership is making it’s last stand here and has little left. Russia and their allies will soon remake the world. Hopefully it’ll be less bad than what we currently have.
Does our nuclear arsenal still work in spite of our government’s extreme neglect of this?