"Last February Britain's then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose "improper relations" with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox's hurried resignation. According to several reports in the British media the Israelis in attendance at the dinner were representatives of the Mossad, Israel's spy agency, while Fox and Werritty were accompanied by Matthew Gould, Britain's [Jewish] ambassador to Israel. A former British diplomat has now claimed that the topic of discussion that evening was a secret plot to attack Iran...

Craig Murray has pieced together evidence that Fox, Werritty and Gould met on at least six occasions over the past two years or so... Officials were not present at a single one of the six meetings between the three men. No record was taken of any of the discussions... The real concern among government officials, Murray said, is that Fox, Werritty and Gould were conspiring in a "rogue" foreign policy - opposed to the British government's stated aims - that was authored by Mossad and Israel's neoconservative allies in Washington."

-- Jonathan Cook, Global Research

"The importance of the Fox-Gould-Werritty scandal is that it lifts the lid on the fact that the move to war with Iran is not a reaction to any street attack or any nuclear agency report. It is a long nurtured plan... The Werritty scandal was hushed up by Gus O'Donnell's risibly meagre "investigation" - a blatant cover-up - and Fox resigned precisely to put a cap on any further digging into what they had been doing."

-- Craig Murray