Israel's Military Intelligence Head Yadlin: Iran Has Enough Uranium For Bomb

The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel's Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said at a conference on security challenges in the 21st century at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, that Iran was extremely close to mastering the necessary nuclear technology, and would wait on the threshold until it felt that the international community was too weak to stop its move toward the bomb. The Jersusalem Post reports that "Iran, he said, had already enriched 1.7 tons of low-enriched uranium at its facility in Natanz - enough for a nuclear weapon. On Monday, the London Times revealed that Iran had been testing a neutron initiator, the component needed to trigger an explosion in a nuclear weapon. 'They are also improving long-range missiles with solid fuel propellant, are also developing nuclear detonators and taking other steps that do not fit the Iranian claim that its program is for civilian purposes,' he said. Yadlin said that it appeared that the diplomatic efforts to stop Iran had failed, and that the time had come for the international community to impose tough sanctions on the regime. He rejected the claim that sanctions would unite the Iranian people behind the regime and said that the post-election demonstrations in June were proof that there was a deep fissure between the people and their rulers. Tweet