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Olmert, according to a report released on Friday (12/5/2020), played the tape in 2008 when US President George W. Bush visited Israel. (Read: China lights up the ‘artificial sun’, 10 times hotter than the real sun)
Drawing on the recollection of a number of high-ranking intelligence officials and Ehud Barak, who was Defense Minister in Olmert’s cabinet at the time, Olmert played a tape for Bush during his last visit to Israel in May 2008 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state.
He was reportedly so afraid to reveal the source of the images that he refused to reproduce them when other people were around, including White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley, who accompanied Bush on the trip.
According to reports Yedioth AhronothFakhrizadeh was heard giving details about Iran’s nuclear weapons development. However, the report only quotes selected phrases, without using the word “nuclear.” (Read: Gordon Chang: China’s World’s DNA Collection And The Terrible Reasons)
In the recording, the scientist complains that the government is not giving him sufficient funds to do his work. On the one hand, Fakhrizadeh spoke in Persian, referring to his superior; “They wanted five warheads, but on the other hand, they wouldn’t let me work.”
Olmert has completed the tape as proof of the seriousness of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, although Fakhrizadeh never uses the word “nuclear” in any quotation.
Bush was reportedly shaken enough by the leaks to agree to share intelligence with Tel Aviv about Iran’s nuclear activities, and even agreed to joint operations against Iran that would later include the Stuxnet cyberattack. However, it failed to provide Tel Aviv with the weapons needed to attack Iranian research facilities, including the purchase of the “bunker-busting” bombs that Barak had pressured Bush and Hadley earlier in their meeting.
