Mossad - Iran Soon to Have Nuclear Weapon
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Since 01-01-06

Iran will achieve "nuclear technology independence" within several months, the chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has warned legislators.

Appearing before the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee to deliver his annual intelligence report, Meir Dagan also declared that Iran "will not stop with one nuclear bomb."

He said "technology independence" doesn't mean Tehran will actually have a nuclear device. But "it does mean they'll be able to enrich uranium with centrifuges," columnist Uri Dan writes in the New York Post.

"Building a bomb would only be a matter of time."

Said Dagan: "Iran will not be satisfied with producing fissionable material for one bomb but will continue to produce large quantities of such material for more bombs."

Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset committee, said: "Iran is capable of getting a bomb in a year or two. And if it does, there will be a new Middle East - black, dangerous and threatening the world over."

Dagan called for an intensification of international diplomatic pressure on Iran.

But Aharon Zeevi, Israel's chief of military intelligence, said the current lack of pressure can be blamed on the Europeans.

"I had meetings with senior officials in Europe," he told Uri Dan.

"And their position is, why should we fear Iran's nuclear weapons? After all, we lived under the nuclear threat after World War II.

"And besides, either you or the Americans will solve the problem."

Zeevi has said that a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be "difficult but not impossible."

But he told the Yediot Aharonot daily: "It is not the time nor place to talk about military action as the diplomatic route is still the order of the day."

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