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27 January '13..

With all the speculation and accusations flying, what can we really expect the Iranians to do?

Since that is always going to be a forward-looking statement, no one can answer it with complete certainty. But for what it's worth, Israelis - who are preoccupied with what is happening behind the closed doors of the Islamist regime in Tehran - have now heard an authentic and unmasked Iranian answer that sounds substantive.

This stems from a television interview that went to air on Israel's Channel 2 last night (Friday) and is reported in an article ["Ex-Iranian diplomat warns Israel: If Iran gets the bomb, it will fire on you"] on the Times of Israel website today. The man doing the spilling is Tehran’s former consul in Oslo, Norway. His name is Mohammad Reza Heydari [Wikipedia]. He served Iran as its consul in Oslo until he resigned in 2010. Before that he served as an Iranian diplomatic official for two decades including stints in Georgia and Germany. These days, he lives in Oslo, where he and his family are protected by the Norwegian authorities.

Now that he has defected, Heydari says in the Friday night interview on Israeli TV that (a) the Islamic regime is ‘willing to destroy many countries’; (b) five other Iranian diplomats in Brussels, London, Geneva, Milan and Paris have defected recently and that he gradually began to realize that he was “not alone”; many other Foreign Ministry employees are only pretending to be religious and ideologically loyal to the regime; (c) his relatives still in Iran have asked him not to speak out publicly, but he feels the imperative to speak, and has no problem with the interview being screened in Israel; (d) if the Iranians get the bomb, they will use it against the Jewish state; (e) Iran uses diplomatic mail to import material relating to its nuclear program; (f) they are aiming to develop two or three bombs and see nuclear weapons as “insurance” to guarantee Iran's survival.

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