Israel Struck to Block Deal

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00:00OK, so why do you think Israel chose to carry out these attacks when the next round of U.S.-Iran

00:08nuclear talks was just about to take place? It was supposed to happen on Sunday. Of course,

00:12it didn't happen. Why do you think Israel chose to act when it did?

00:16Speculation, of course, on my part, but there's many who believed that Israel did not want to see

00:21another nuclear agreement between Iran and the United States. They were opposed to the 2015

00:27agreement. This was looking to be very similar. The only question that they couldn't resolve is

00:33whether Iran would be allowed to enrich uranium in Iran. The United States didn't want them to.

00:40There was an allowance for that in the original agreement, but only to the level that would be

00:45needed for civilian energy. The U.S., of course, pushed for this multinational consortium where

00:52you can bring in enriched uranium that's already been enriched somewhere else. Iran wasn't going

00:57for that. So it might have been that Israel was concerned that Iran would fold on that,

01:03if you will, and get to an agreement that they didn't like. And I think that is a possibility

01:08that they went ahead and took the strike, because at least from my knowledge in public reporting,

01:13it wasn't clear that Iran had made the determination to get a nuclear weapon

01:17and was on the precipice of that.