In 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, followed more adamantly and boldly by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since then, identified the danger to the West posed by Iran's nuclear program. Netanyahu has refuted Iran's claim that its program is for peaceful purposes.
A country sitting atop massive oil wells does not need to invest billions of dollars, at the expense of its own people's welfare, in nuclear reactors, centrifuges and uranium enrichment.
Many experts in the Unites States and some senior Israeli defense establishment officials argued passionately that Netanyahu was a doomsayer protesting too vociferously. A few short years later, it became clear that the danger was clear and present.
Anyone who sees what the Islamic State group has accomplished with pickup trucks, knives and machine guns can understand the significance of a country armed with a nuclear weapon, a country that subcontracts and operates a complex terrorist network around the world to do its bidding.
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