- Iran will achieve "nuclear technology independence"
within several months, the chief of Israel's Mossad spy agency has warned
legislators.
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- "Building a bomb would only be a matter of time."
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- Dagan called for an intensification of international
diplomatic pressure on Iran.
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- But Aharon Zeevi, Israel's chief of military intelligence,
said the current lack of pressure can be blamed on the Europeans.
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- "I had meetings with senior officials in Europe,"
he told Uri Dan.
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- "And their position is, why should we fear Iran's
nuclear weapons? After all, we lived under the nuclear threat after World
War II.
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- "And besides, either you or the Americans will solve
the problem."
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- Zeevi has said that a pre-emptive strike against Iran's
nuclear facilities would be "difficult but not impossible."
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- 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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- http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/12/30/112612.shtml
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