Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticized on Friday the decision makers from the past decade, saying they failed to adopt the necessary policy and thus allowed the Iranians to reach the capabilities they have today. ‘I talked about this back in 2001, when the Iranian nuclear facilities were not underground and scattered as they are now,’ Lieberman said in a special interview with Channel 2 News. ‘I was exposed to this issue for the first time in 1996, when I was Director-General of the Prime Minister's Office. In 2001, we knew they were planning to move all their nuclear facilities underground and spread them out, but the decisions as they should have been made were not made.
Lieberman refused to directly answer the question of whether he was among the ministers who support an attack on Iran, but stressed that he views the current situation as being very serious. ‘As someone who has been engaged with this issue for many years, I can say that, according to intelligence information, Israel cannot live with a nuclear Iran,’ he said, adding, ‘Whoever makes light of this situation and brings, as an example, the fact that Pakistan, India and North Korea are nuclear - does not know what he's talking about. There is no way that the State of Israel can accept a nuclear Iran.’…”
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