Bomb Iran and it will surely decide to pursue nuclear arms | Mehdi Hasan

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Bomb Iran and it will surely decide to pursue nuclear arms | Mehdi Hasan

If Israel’s 1981 bombing of Iraqi nuclear facilities teaches us anything, it’s that the quickest way to help the Iranians make up their minds is to attack themOn 7 June 1981 a phalanx of Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers entered Iraqi airspace on the orders of the then Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. Their mission, codenamed Operation Babylon, was to destroy Saddam Hussein’s nascent nuclear programme.