{"id":141407,"date":"2024-04-14T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=141407"},"modified":"2024-04-14T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T22:49:55","slug":"the-missiles-of-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/04\/14\/the-missiles-of-april\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missiles of April"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCOTT RITTER<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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An Iranian missile is launched. Scores of these missiles were used to attack Israel.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the ground truth\u201d about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran<\/em>, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government. I followed this book up with another, Dealbreaker<\/em>, in 2018, which brought this US-Israeli effort up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in November 2006, in an address to Columbia University\u2019s School of International Relations, I underscored that the United States would never abandon my good friend\u201d Israel until, of course, we did. What could precipitate such an action, I asked? I noted that Israel was a nation drunk of hubris and power, and unless the United States could find a way to remove the keys from the ignition of the bus Israel was navigating toward the abyss, we would not join Israel in its lemming-like suicidal journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next year, in 2007, during an address to the American Jewish Committee, I pointed out that my criticism of Israel (which many in the audience took strong umbrage against) came from a place of concern for Israel\u2019s future. I underscored the reality that I had spent the better part of a decade trying to protect Israel from Iraqi missiles, both during my service in Desert Storm, where I played a role in the counter-SCUD missile campaign, and as a United Nations weapons inspector, where I worked with Israeli intelligence to make sure Iraq\u2019s SCUD missiles were eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Storey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Missiles of April – Scott Ritter Extra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT RITTER Iran\u2019s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I\u2019ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the ground truth\u201d about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}