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Israel claims that the attack impeded Iraq's nuclear ambitions by at least ten years. [18] In an interview in 2005, Bill Clinton expressed support for the attack: "everybody talks about what the Israelis did at Osiraq, in 1981, which, I think, in retrospect, was a really good thing. You know, it kept Saddam from developing nuclear power."
In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an "Osiris class" nuclear reactor from France. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program, in spite of it being built within the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and under the inspection regime of the IAEA.
Israel supported Iran during the Iran–Iraq War. Israel was one of the main suppliers of military equipment to Iran during the war. Israel also provided military instructors during the war, and in turn received Iranian intelligence that helped it carry out Operation Opera against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.
Iran's only operating nuclear power plant, on the Gulf coast, uses Russian fuel that Russia then takes back when it is spent, reducing the proliferation risk. (Reporting by Francois Murphy ...
During the war, Israel was one of the main suppliers of military equipment to Iran and also provided military instructors. Israel gave direct support to Iran's war effort when it bombed and destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in Operation Babylon. The nuclear reactor was considered a central component of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. [50]
Fuller details about the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear facility in 1981. That Israel collaborated with South Africa on a nuclear test over the Indian Ocean in 1979. That during the 1991 Gulf War Israel pointed nuclear armed mobile missiles at Iraq. That Israel holds a few neutron bombs in addition to several hundred other nuclear weapons.
It was unclear why Israel carried out the attack when it did and whether it was an opportunistic operation or something more strategic to be followed by other actions, two U.S. officials and a ...
After Iraq attacked Israel with Scud missiles during the 1991 Gulf War, Israel went on full-scale nuclear alert and mobile nuclear missile launchers were deployed. [219] In the buildup to the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq , there were concerns that Iraq would launch an unconventional weapons attack on Israel.