‘Rift over Iran eating away at Israel’

“A rift the size of a potential coup is taking shape between the Israeli government and the military-intelligence men over Iran, a fact which threatens the ruling Israeli political apparat on the one hand and exonerates Iran of all years-long groundless allegations on the other,” wrote Ismail Salami, a prolific Iranian author and Middle East expert, in an article published on Press TV’s website on Tuesday.

Referring to the former Director of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, Yuval Diskin’s recent harsh criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime for its harboring of “messianic feelings over Iran” and projection of “a false image” over Tehran’s nuclear energy program, he noted that even “the very mention of the name” of the country or any conciliatory talk against the war with Iran “is enough to cause anger in the Israeli officials.”

Speaking at a meeting with residents of the Kfar Sava city in central Israel on Friday, Diskin had said that Netanyahu and Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak were not worthy of leading the regime. “I don’t believe in either the prime minister or the defense minister. I don’t believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings,” he complained.

Israeli opposition leader Shaul Mofaz later rejected claims that Diskin’s comments had been made out of “personal, political considerations,” and said that he agreed with his assertion that the current regime was using the alleged Iranian threat to distract Israelis from other pressing issues.

“Iran is a taboo word in the dictionary of the Zionists and anyone who speaks a word or words implicating a defense of or support for the Islamic Republic is considered an enemy” by the Israeli regime, Salami pointed out, adding, “That is why Diskin’s scathing comments were interpreted as stemming from ‘personal desperation.’”

The author of Iran, Cradle of Civilization further pointed to conflicting reactions within the Tel Aviv regime to Diskin’s remarks, identifying “two different fronts” of Israeli authorities, those who are “cognizant of the true nature” of Tehran’s nuclear activities and thus critical of the Zionist war rhetoric and those “who lie about the Iranian nuclear program and serve as nuclear Pinocchios in the international arena.”

Salami went on to say that “a strong feeling of fear is eroding the Israeli regime from within and without” as, on the one hand, its “intelligence people… are exposing the lies of the regime about Iran” and on the other “the Zionist regime is fearful” that the slated May 23 talks between Iran and the P5+1 group in Baghdad “could ultimately end with a deal that would allow Tehran to continue enriching uranium.”

“At all events, the [Israeli] regime is toddling on political razor’s edge and that it is already caught between a rock and a hard place,” the Iranian analyst added.

He also highlighted Tel Aviv’s desperate attempts to “sabotage” the upcoming Iran-P5+1 negotiations, which have manifested themselves in the Israeli regime’s decision to dispatch its “National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror to Europe to hold talks with European officials,” noting that “Apparently, what is happening is not in the least in the best interests of Israel.”

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