{"id":8289,"date":"2018-05-31T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2018-05-31T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:19:13","slug":"netanyahu-prepared-to-attack-iran-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/netanyahu-prepared-to-attack-iran-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu prepared to attack Iran in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2455\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Neta.jpg\" alt=\"Neta\" width=\"323\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Neta.jpg 387w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Neta-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/>The former head of Israel\u2019s Mossad intelligence agency has said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the military to prepare to attack Iran \u201cwithin 15 days\u201d back in 2011.<br \/>\nEx-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo made the assertion during a Thursday interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 2.<br \/>\nPardo, who headed the Mossad from 2011 to 2016, did not give the exact date of the incident, but said Netanyahu had told army commanders to prepare for deployment \u201cat any moment\u201d.<br \/>\nAsked if whether he believed Netanyahu\u2019s order had been serious, Pardo said that it was.<br \/>\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t something you do merely to test your army\u2019s capabilities,\u201d Pardo told the broadcaster. \u201cEither you mean it or you\u2019re sending a signal to the U.S.\u201d<br \/>\nUltimately, Pardo said, Netanyahu had backed down due to opposition from Israeli military officials, including then army chief Benny Gantz.<br \/>\nFor decades, Israel-Iran relations have been characterized by deep animosity. While Tehran views Israel as its primary enemy, the Jewish state insists that Iran must be stopped from attaining a nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/netanyahu-prepared-to-attack-iran-in-2011\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of Israel\u2019s Mossad intelligence agency has said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the military to prepare to attack Iran \u201cwithin 15 days\u201d back in 2011. Ex-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo made the assertion during a Thursday interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 2. Pardo, who headed the Mossad from 2011 to 2016, did &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8290,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions\/8290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}