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Iran "galloping" towards a nuclear bomb: Israel intelligence
Jerusalem, Sept 22 (PTI) Iran is "galloping" towards a
nuclear bomb as differences among Western nations are widening
over the issue making diplomatic pressures ineffective, a top
Israeli intelligence officer has said.
"Iran is developing a command of uranium-enrichment
technology and is galloping towards making a nuclear bomb,"
Brig General Yossi Baidatz, head of Israel's Military
Intelligence's (M.I.) research department was quoted by daily
Ha'aretz.
Tehran's self-confidence is growing because they realise
that the rest of the world is too weak to stop them, Baidatz
told the Israeli cabinet.
It is using diplomatic dialogue "to gain time, and in the
meantime, the cracks in the West are getting ever larger. The
sanctions have very little influence, and are far from
bringing to bear a critical mass of pressure on Iran," he
stressed.
Iran is improving the centrifugal array in its enrichment
facility in the desert city of Kashan, and has activated 4,000
centrifuges since the beginning of the year, generating 60
grams of UF-6 gas an hour, a product used to enrich uranium to
a military level, the M.I. research head emphasised.
Iran already has about 480 kilograms of low-level
enriched uranium, between one-third and one-half of the amount
of fissionable material needed to create a single nuclear
bomb, Baidatz said.
"We believe that the time until the point of no return is
getting increasingly shorter. The international front against
Iran is weak and not consolidated, and isn't putting enough
pressure on the regime so that it will stop enriching the
uranium," he stressed.
An increasing gap between the Russian and Chinese
positions on Iran and that of the United States and the
European Union has reduced the chances of a fourth round of
U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, the daily said.
Israel has described Tehran's nuclear programme an
"existential threat" and launched a worldwide campaign to stop
it from acquiring nuclear capability.
Iran says that its nuclear programme is for peaceful
purposes. PTI Corr RN
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nuclear bomb as differences among Western nations are widening
over the issue making diplomatic pressures ineffective, a top
Israeli intelligence officer has said.
"Iran is developing a command of uranium-enrichment
technology and is galloping towards making a nuclear bomb,"
Brig General Yossi Baidatz, head of Israel's Military
Intelligence's (M.I.) research department was quoted by daily
Ha'aretz.
Tehran's self-confidence is growing because they realise
that the rest of the world is too weak to stop them, Baidatz
told the Israeli cabinet.
It is using diplomatic dialogue "to gain time, and in the
meantime, the cracks in the West are getting ever larger. The
sanctions have very little influence, and are far from
bringing to bear a critical mass of pressure on Iran," he
stressed.
Iran is improving the centrifugal array in its enrichment
facility in the desert city of Kashan, and has activated 4,000
centrifuges since the beginning of the year, generating 60
grams of UF-6 gas an hour, a product used to enrich uranium to
a military level, the M.I. research head emphasised.
Iran already has about 480 kilograms of low-level
enriched uranium, between one-third and one-half of the amount
of fissionable material needed to create a single nuclear
bomb, Baidatz said.
"We believe that the time until the point of no return is
getting increasingly shorter. The international front against
Iran is weak and not consolidated, and isn't putting enough
pressure on the regime so that it will stop enriching the
uranium," he stressed.
An increasing gap between the Russian and Chinese
positions on Iran and that of the United States and the
European Union has reduced the chances of a fourth round of
U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran, the daily said.
Israel has described Tehran's nuclear programme an
"existential threat" and launched a worldwide campaign to stop
it from acquiring nuclear capability.
Iran says that its nuclear programme is for peaceful
purposes. PTI Corr RN
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