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Last update - 16:26 16/06/2009
Mossad: Iran will have nuclear bomb by 2014
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel news, Iran, Mossad 

Mossad Chief Meir Dagan warned on Tuesday that Iran was capable of developing and launching its first nuclear weapon by 2014.

"Launching a bomb these days is no problem, technically speaking," Dagan told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee. "If the project has no technical glitches, and if Iran's program does not malfunction in any way, they will have a bomb to launch by 2014."

"This is a significant existential threat for the State of Israel. We must distance this threat," he said.
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The Mossad chief referred to the ongoing violence which has erupted in Tehran in the wake of a disputed presidential election as "an argument between Iran's elite?. This is an internal matter, not external."

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency found earlier this year that Iran has crossed the "technological threshold," and has built up one ton of enriched uranium.

If the material undergoes further processing at the Natanz enrichment facility, it will be sufficient to produce one nuclear bomb.

Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin said in March that the Islamic Republic's strategy is not merely to produce one bomb, which could force them into a conflict with the world, but to enrich a large amount of fissionable material at a low level of 4.5 percent. But Iran claims that it needs to do this for civilian purposes only, Yadlin said.

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      1.   ANOTHER JOKE, BUT I AM NOT LAUGHING NO MORE 15:55  |  indrajaya 16/06/09
      2.   Dec. 2009? 2010? 11? 12? 13? or 2014? Make up Your Mind! 16:11  |  Monitor 16/06/09
      3.   Confused 16:18  |  Reza 16/06/09
      4.   So it`s blow out to FIVE years now? 16:18  |  Johnboy 16/06/09
      5.   END OF STORY 16:18  |  indrajaya 16/06/09
      6.   And The Jordan Bomb, Egyptian Bomb, Etcetera... 16:20  |  Yosemite 16/06/09
      7.   If Dagan is right- 16:20  |  WHG 16/06/09
      8.   Didn`t Iran get the bomb two years ago? 16:23  |  Mark Lincoln 16/06/09
      9.   The Rules Have Changed, Beni Sahioun! 16:32  |  Nour 16/06/09
      10.   wondering--please respond 16:35  |  curious 16/06/09
      11.   To # 7 16:35  |  Scott L. Havsy 16/06/09
      12.   Mossad tactic keeps Iran off balance about its intentions? 16:35  |  common sense 16/06/09
      13.   A lot can happen by 2014. 16:38  |  Tzfonit 16/06/09
      14.   M`fagair 16:39  |  Kitah Aleph 16/06/09
      15.   I Read An Interesting Story Yesterday... 16:43  |  Yosemite 16/06/09
      16.   It`s like the boy who cried "wolf" ! 16:53  |  MIKE 16/06/09
      17.   Regime change in Iran would be far superior to a military strike. 16:56  |  Lane 16/06/09
      18.   keep pushing the final date back. They probably have nukes alread 16:58  |  Joey 16/06/09
      19.   1 to 6 - You are so anxious that you don`t read the article. 17:34  |  Ben-Africa 16/06/09
      20.   Oh well, if it`s 2014, let`s stop worrying about it! 17:36  |  Michael 16/06/09
      21.   Since 13-May-2005 17:38  |  Shimon Cleopas 16/06/09
      22.   I believe that Iran will go nuclear 17:45  |  Chris Linthwaite 16/06/09
      23.   Middle East "Nuke Free Zone" !! Why Israel refuses? 17:52  |  Tony Silver 16/06/09
      24.   Nuclear Bomb: To all responses. 17:55  |  Bronson 16/06/09
      25.   Pan Islamic Civil War 17:55  |  crlman 16/06/09
      26.   Mark Lincoln offers us his slice of yellowcake 18:06  |  Jacob Blues 16/06/09
      27.   Iran should buy a few nukes. Then their will be peace. 18:09  |  Lou Medel 16/06/09
      28.   Mossad propaganda 18:13  |  Ed 16/06/09
      29.   Monitor is right # 2 18:13  |  Fortuna Benmayor 16/06/09
      30.   Iran not the concern, it`s Egypt (what`s next) 18:19  |  Shaul Ben-Yimini 16/06/09
      31.   israel has bomb- are they better than others? 18:35  |  dave cohen 16/06/09
      32.   10curious-If Iran thought they could get away with 18:36  |  bat yam 16/06/09
      33.   Key Linthuaite... 18:36  |  Tzfonit 16/06/09
      34.   israel is saber rattling 18:38  |  u.s. will not back a 16/06/09
      35.   The problem is,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 18:40  |  MIKE 16/06/09
      36.   iran didnt threaten to wipe 18:40  |  israel off map.... 16/06/09
      37.   YOU MEAN ISRAEL? 18:42  |  STOP AID TO ISRAEL 16/06/09
      38.   GREAT NATION?? HA! 18:46  |  WELFARE COUNTRY MAYB 16/06/09
      39.   Iran has every right to acquire nuclear weapons 18:51  |  Danny 16/06/09
      40.   Tzfonit - hopefully there will be a regime change in Israel too! 18:52  |  Danny 16/06/09
      41.   #34 You Mean you don`t know what you mean? 19:04  |  Urani Diot 16/06/09
      42.   Nuclear War - a Reality rather than Fantasy! 19:07  |  Bader Sulaiman 16/06/09
      43.   Bush`s released NIE assessment that Iran not working on bomb 19:21  |  Voice of Reason 16/06/09
      44.   The Supreme Mullahs coup makes a diplomatic solution impossible 19:26  |  Realist 16/06/09
      45.   Iran probably has "nukes" already, but can`t launch them 19:43  |  Rafé 16/06/09
      46.   Why do you care who said what, when? 19:49  |  Julian 16/06/09
      47.   Resistance 19:54  |  petr vojta 16/06/09
      48.   #33 Tzfonit 20:06  |  Chris Linthwaite 16/06/09
      49.   Logic is faulty. There are no winners. 20:19  |  Witness 16/06/09
      50.   Israel has and Iran will have a nuclear bomb as well!! 21:34  |  alan 16/06/09
      51.   Another report 21:30  |  Axel 16/06/09
      52.   Iran has 4 nukes already 07:52  |  Todd 17/06/09
      53.   Fortuna 11:44  |  Peter Williams 17/06/09
      54.   CIA says they already have old soviet nukes 05:35  |  levi ben malka 18/06/09
      55.   Mossad: Iran will have nuclear bomb by 2014 06:00  |  Aarky 18/06/09
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