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The whistle-blowing website obtained some 250,000 diplomatic cables between the U.S.
and its allies, which Washington had urged the site not to publish. But by Sunday evening
Israel time, major news organizations around the world had released a significant
amount of documents touching on subjects ranging from Iran's nuclear aspirations, to
espionage at the United Nations and even the behavior of the British monarchy.
The June 2009 cable also quotes Barak as describing the Iranian leadership as "chess, not
backgammon players," with a U.S. diplomat quoting the defense minister as saying
Tehran would "attempt to avoid any hook to hang accusations on, and look to Pakistan
and North Korea as models to emulate in terms of acquiring nuclear weapons while
defying the international community."
Meanwhile, another cable shows that a 2009 claim by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu that Iran was months away from achieving military nuclear capability was
dismissed by the Americans as a ploy.
According to German weekly Der Spiegel, which also received advance information from
WIkiLeaks, a State Department official says in a classified cable that Netanyahu informed
the United States of Iran's nuclear advancement in November 2009, but that the prime
minister's estimate was likely unfounded and intended to pressure Washington into
action against the Islamic Republic.
Many of the classified communiques seem to reveal the inner workings of American and
international diplomacy, and are likely to cause major embarrassment to the United
States. American embassies in more than a dozen nations have informed their host
countries that secret cables relating to them could be among those exposed.
The Guardian also quotes documents that show officials in Jordan and Bahrain “openly
calling for Iran's nuclear program to be stopped by any means, including military.” The
British daily also says leaders in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt called Iran "evil," and an
"existential threat" which "is going to take us to war."
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