The chances of a full-blown war between Israel and Iran are escalating with every month and could happen as early as 2025, the authors of an explosive new book told World Israel News in an interview on Wednesday.
According to Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, two Israeli journalists whose recently published book, Target Tehran, chronicles the history of the Israel-Iran nuclear conflict, war is likely to break out even if the U.S. and Iran succeed in negotiating a return to the 2015 nuclear accords, which Israel opposes.
“Without an ironclad agreement between Iran and the world powers guaranteeing that Tehran will not be able to become a nuclear weapons power, the chances of conflict grow with every month,” Evyatar told World Israel News.
“The fundamental reason for Israel’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is that it simply does not believe Iran will stop pursuing the development of an atomic bomb,” he added.
Israel’s stance is fortified by the revelations uncovered in its pillage of Iran’s nuclear archive, executed right under the nose of the Iranian security apparatus in the heart of Tehran. The raid—which the authors dissect in a chapter of the book — highlighted that Iran’s nuclear aspirations remained steadfast even before former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear accords – a decision he made based on evidence the Mossad found during the heist.
Bob and Evyatar suggest that the crisis could boil over as early as October 2025, when the restrictions on the number of centrifuges Iran can assemble begin to expire. Even if a new accord was signed, if it maintains the basic provisions of the previous one, the authors argue, tensions could escalate in anticipation of an Iran equipped with more centrifuges, thus capable of achieving weapons-grade uranium at unprecedented speeds.
“Israel would probably address such a prospect first through covert sabotage led by the Mossad, and if that didn’t work, the IDF would be assigned to mount an aerial strike,” Bob said.
Israel Atomic Energy Commission Dir.-Gen. Moshe Edri warned on Tuesday that Iran’s military nuclear program and long-range missiles constitute a security threat to the Middle East and the entire international community.
“Iran is still the spearhead of regional instability and is a threat to peace and security worldwide, stated Edri during his address at the 67th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in the Austrian capital of Vienna.
“There is no doubt that Iran conducted a military nuclear program aimed at producing several nuclear weapon devices. Iran continues to advance this program by gaining relevant technology and knowledge, along with fissile material in alarming amounts," he added.
The Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) chief stressed that preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear bombs demands the “full attention of the international community.”
In his latest address to the UN General Assembly in New York last week, Netanyahu mistakenly stated that Iran must face a nuclearthreat rather than a conventional military threat.
“Western powers promised that if Iran violated the nuclear deal, the sanctions would be snapped back… sanctions must be snapped back, and above all, Iran must face a credible nuclear threat,” the Israeli premier said.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Iravani, blasted Netanyahu’s “alarming and serious threat... to make use of nuclear weapons against Iran.”
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