Israel ’planned Iran attack in 2010’ | World news | guardian.co.uk
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Israel’s prime minister and defence minister ordered the country’s military to prepare for a strike against Iran’s nuclear installations two years ago, according to a television documentary to be aired on Monday.
But the order was not enacted after it met with strong opposition from key security chiefs, the military chief of staff and head of the Mossad, the programme in the TV series Uvda [Fact] claims.
It says that, following a meeting of selected key ministers and officials, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak decided to order the army to raise its level of preparedness to “P Plus”, a code signifying imminent military action.
But the army chief Gabi Ashkenazi and Mossad head Meir Dagan, who were both present at the meeting, opposed the move. According to the hour-long Channel 2 programme, Dagan told Netanyahu and Barak: “You are likely to make an illegal decision to go to war. Only the cabinet is authorised to decide this.”
