Strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities are still possible, David Aidelman, Israeli historian and political strategist, told ArmInfo.
Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called the deal with Iran 'a historic mistake.' He thinks the document will not hold Iran from making nuclear weapons. The Israeli prime minister is sure that reducing sanctions on Iran will make that country less cooperative in future.
Aidelman said that Netanyahu does not trust Iran's leadership and their peaceful goals. "His concerns are not groundless. Even without nuclear weapons, Iran has been undermining our country by supporting militants of various terrorist organizations for already 25 years. Netanyahu has been preparing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities for a long period of time. Israel has spent nearly 4 billion dollars just on preparations for that operation. Israel's leadership still considers a strike on those facilities as a possible option," Adelman said.
He said that the agreement made in Geneva is a severe blow over Israel's positions in the world and many in Israel consider it as a failure of both Israel's diplomacy and Netanyahu's foreign policy. Aidelman is skeptical about possible use of Azerbaijan's territory for striking Iran's nuclear facilities. He does not think that Israeli military bases are located in the territory of Azerbaijan. "There are no such bases, and not because official Jerusalem and Baku deny their existence. The point is that such bases could not be concealed from up-to-ate satellite and other surveillance," Adelman said. According to him, it would be too unreasonable for Israel to deploy an open air base in the territory of Azerbaijan - a country it has no full-fledged diplomatic relations with (there is no Azerbaijani embassy in Israel).
"For Azerbaijan, it is extremely unreasonable to give military bases to Israel, if they cannot even open an embassy in Israel for the fear of Arab countries. That would be too unreasonable also for the president of that Muslim country Ilham Aliyev, as he would turn into personal target of the Islamic terrorism and jihad. Ilham Aliyev can be criticized for many things, but never for being mad. As former teacher of Moscow Institute of International Relations, he knows a little about international relations. Even leaving aside diplomacy and international relations, who would protect Israel's bases in the territory of abandoned Soviet aerodromes, if there were such? Will Azerbaijani air defense do that? I'd not like to offend anyone, but it is not serious," Adelman said.