Former Defense Minister Ehud Barak is claiming that Israel was ready to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2011, but Ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Yuval Steinitz refused, and the plan was nixed.
Barak’s comments were made in recorded interviews with the authors of a newly published biography on him. The recordings, which were aired by Channel 2 News on Friday, were made available to the channel following the approval of the military censor.
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