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Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could 'affect us for 100 years'

26-Jul-2008
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Report: Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could 'affect us for 100 years' By Haaretz Service Tags: Iran, nuclear, U.S., Mossad Former Mossad Chief Ephraim Halevy told Time magazine in an interview published Thursday that an Israeli attack on Iran "could have an impact on us for the next 100 years" and should only be considered as a last resort. Halevy, who currently heads the Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, added that an Iranian attack on Israel would probably have little impact, because Iranian missiles would largely be intercepted by Israel's advanced anti-missile defense system. (Don't count on it. These systems have NEVER performed successful tests on the type of missile which would be used in a counter-attack by Iran or Russia.) Another former senior Mossad official, who... [read full story]                    

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