'Israel's aim is to bring in the Americans' - former MI6 chief

 'Israel's aim is to bring in the Americans' - former MI6 chief

The former chief of the UK's intelligence service MI6, Sir John Sawers, tells the BBC News Channel that Israel hasn't targeted some of the most important nuclear facilities in Iran, because they don’t have the military capacity to dig deep underground.

"Only the Americans have got that,” he says.

He says the big decision in Washington will be “shall we join the Israelis and complete the job” or find a diplomatic way out of this.

He cautions that there is also a danger that “you end up with a damaged and wounded Iran which has the nuclear programme still intact.”

But he thinks Israel's aim is to “bring the Americans into the conflict” so that US power can be used to destroy the nuclear facilities.