Iran not working on bomb: Israel intelligence head
AFP
25-Jan-2011 (3 comments)

JERUSALEM — Iran is not currently working on producing a nuclear weapon but could make one within "a year or two" of taking such a decision, Israel's military intelligence chief said on Tuesday.

"The question is not when Iran will acquire the bomb, but how long until the leader decides to begin enriching (uranium) at 90 percent," Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi told parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee in his first briefing since taking up the role in November.

Once such a decision is made, it would take "a year or two" to produce a nuclear warhead, he said, adding that Iran would then need more time to develop an effective missile delivery system for it.

Kochavi said it was unlikely that Iran, which currently enriches uranium to 20 percent, would start enriching it to the 90 percent level needed for a bomb, because it would be in open breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty exposing it to harsher sanctions or even a US or Israeli military strike.

He said Iran was reluctant to do this at a time when the country was going through a period of "instability" and "religious tension."

"At the moment, it's not in Iran's interest to move their programme ahead," he told the committee.

Recently, several senior Israeli officials, including the former head of the Mossad overseas intelligence agency, Meir Dagan, have said that Iran is unlikely to acq... >>>

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Bavafa

Reading Hebrew

by Bavafa on Wed Jan 26, 2011 08:57 AM PST

Those who can read Hebrew and have access to Israeli secret document may know more, thus advocating to kill and destroy in the two-blog-a-day

For those of us that read only Farsi and English and judge all by the same lens, see who in ME has WMD, has been an occupier for nearly 60 years, has raped, stolen and terrorized their neighbors. Of course, the counter part to this criminal regime is equally criminal when it comes to its own citizen.

Mehrdad


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MOOSIRvaPIAZ

Israel, wrong for so long

by MOOSIRvaPIAZ on Wed Jan 26, 2011 01:16 AM PST

Nobody believes Israeli estimates anymore. As wikileaks revealed even the state department knows they exagerate alot.


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Fred

Reading 101

by Fred on Wed Jan 26, 2011 02:57 AM PST

If the news contributor had read this posted news item as carefully as he reads the blogs, this punch line would have been telling about the Islamist Rapists’ nuke intentions: “The question is not when Iran will acquire the bomb, but how long …”


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