The risk of nuclear proliferation from Iran is a serious threat in the coming months, and the United Kingdom and France are devising strategies to prepare for it, the head of France’s foreign intelligence service said on Friday.
“Our services are working hand in hand to tackle what is undoubtedly one of the threats, not to say the most critical threat, in the coming months — the possible atomic proliferation in Iran,” said Nicolas Lerner at the British embassy in Geneva.
His rare public comments come as Iran and European powers meet in Geneva to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, the situation in the Middle East and Tehran’s ties with Russia amid the war in Ukraine.
Understand conflicts in the Middle East
At the end of November, a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was approved. This comes after months of bombings by the Israeli Army in Lebanon.
The offensive caused destruction and forced more than a million people to leave their homes to escape the war. Furthermore, it left dozens of people dead in Lebanese territory. Just like Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad are radical groups financed by Iran, and therefore enemies of Israel.
The expectation is that the agreement will serve as the basis for a more lasting cessation of hostilities.
At the same time, the war continues in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military is fighting Hamas and searching for hostages who were kidnapped more than a year ago during the radical group’s attack on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023. At the time, more than 1,200 people were killed and 250 kidnapped.
Since then, more than 43,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza during Israel’s offensive, which also destroyed virtually every building in the Palestinian territory.
On a third front of conflict, Israel and Iran exchanged attacks, which despite raising tension, did not evolve into an all-out war. Furthermore, the Israeli Army has been carrying out bombings on militia targets allied to Iran in Syria and Yemen. and in Iraq.
This content was originally published in Iran’s nuclear proliferation risk is a “critical threat”, says French spy chief on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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