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		Military Intelligence Chief taking part in a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday. (Tomer Appelbaum / BauBau)

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MI Chief: Israel has restored its capabilities of deterrence

By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent

Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin on Sunday told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Israel has restored its deterrence capabilities since the Second Lebanon War last summer.

Addressing the panel on the issue of the Iranian nuclear threat, Yadlin added that the rehabilitation of Israel's power of deterrence would have an effect on the entire region, including Syria and Iran.

According to the MI Chief, senior Iranian officials have begun overtly hinting at their state's strategic and military significance and are counting themselves among the world's nuclear states.

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"Iran apparently has no basic intention to change the objective of its nuclear project, but has begun to speak overtly on the matter," Yadlin told the committee.

"Iran has a few messages to the world, and the first is that it has crossed the threshold and knows how to make nuclear devices. The second message is that the West won't be able to halt its project with sanctions. The third is that the price of confrontation with Iran is very high and that it has means of deterrence - both military and terror," said Yadlin.

According to Yadlin, the Iran file is being transferred from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the United Nations Security Council. However, he said, "The Iranians want the matter returned to the agency, because if it were, they would be able to control the timetable of the issue. It would be able to supply partial answers and delay the proceedings," said Yadlin.

He added that the West's sanctions were imposed on Iran due to international demand - not due to a decision of the Security Council. "These are mainly economic sanctions and are not having much of an effect on Iran," Yadlin said.

On the issue of the Palestinians, the MI Chief said that Hamas was planning to carry out a large demonstrative attack in an attempt to thwart an international peace conference scheduled for November.

Ahead of his address to the committee, Yadlin was ordered to keep mum on reports of an Israel Air Force infiltration of Syrian air space earlier this month.

Panel chairman Tzachi Hanegbi opened Sunday's meeting by announcing that he had instructed Yadlin to avoid any mention of Syria at the committee meeting. Israel has been keeping a low profile on the issue since it was first reported nearly two weeks ago.

In the past, Israel often has been swift to announce such operations. This time, it was Syria that announced the incident, declaring that its air space had been entered and that Israel had dropped munitions.

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1.	Iran - will sizzle in the name of God	17:54	\|	Chaim Gorenstein	16/09/07

2.	How do you figure that?	19:00	\|	ralphsrant1	16/09/07

3.	REALLY	19:17	\|	JOE	16/09/07

4.	CONQUER DAMASCUS, INVADE SYRIA, SHOW IRAN, ANNUL ALL THREATS)))))	19:19	\|	VOICE of MOSHIACH)))	16/09/07

5.	Mullah`s just want in on the nuclear circle	19:37	\|	D	16/09/07

6.	Joe - Kidding?	20:15	\|	Mark Lincoln	16/09/07

7.	"These are mainly economic sanctions	20:18	\|	Yonatan	16/09/07

8.	Concerning Iran and Israel and the UN	20:21	\|	Natallie Durson	16/09/07

9.	islam is not the devil	20:35	\|	roberta	16/09/07

10.	not as long,as olmert is prime minister	20:39	\|	chaim schonbrun	16/09/07

11.	hey fool	20:45	\|	eric	16/09/07

12.	How can anyone take Natalie Durson seriously?	20:48	\|	Yonatan	16/09/07

13.	Syria as a warning tro Iran	21:08	\|	Natalie Durson	16/09/07

14.	Natalie, Natalie	21:10	\|	Robert	16/09/07

15.	#9 roberta - right and wrong	21:13	\|	Yonatan	16/09/07

16.	Chaim Gorenstein are you ready to die?	21:23	\|	spyguy	16/09/07

17.	#16 spyguy - yes, there will be casualties	21:39	\|	Yonatan	16/09/07

18.	SpyGuy got one thing right	21:47	\|	Steve G	16/09/07

19.	#9 roberta confuses the term moderate	22:07	\|	victor hardman	16/09/07

20.	#16 why is spyguy always worried about israel ?	22:10	\|	victor hardman	16/09/07

21.	US Theatre Capabilities	22:23	\|	Schneur	16/09/07

22.	US Theatre Capabilities	22:23	\|	Schenur	16/09/07

23.	US Theatre Capabilities	22:28	\|	Schneur Genack	16/09/07

24.	"To the Litani River"	22:52	\|	Abdul Qadr	16/09/07

25.	No One Has Told The People of Sderot This	22:56	\|	Yoram	16/09/07

26.	TO YONATAN NO 12.	00:16	\|	DANNY.	17/09/07

27.	CORRECTION: US has restored "Israel capability of deterrence"	00:21	\|	nobodysacred	17/09/07

28.	controlling the timetable	00:25	\|	akiva P	17/09/07

29.	#8 NUT allie Durson	01:17	\|	* BEN JABO	17/09/07

30.	#16 Spyguy	01:22	\|	* BEN JABO	17/09/07

31.	those who curse israel will be cursed.	01:48	\|	marcia lewis	17/09/07

32.	#27 nobody sacred	02:16	\|	* BEN JABO	17/09/07

33.	to Cahim Gorenstein: are you a "holocaust survivor"?	02:31	\|	nobodysacred	17/09/07

34.	Why did they choose that headline????	02:39	\|	Johnboy	17/09/07

35.	Dimona in action? What would be the reaction of the world?	02:56	\|	nobodysacred	17/09/07

36.	While we`re talking about "Palestine"	06:34	\|	* BEN JABO	17/09/07

37.	mi chief	17:58	\|	rob	17/09/07

38.	Iran and Israel`s law of warfare	18:52	\|	Paul	17/09/07

39.	US has restored	18:55	\|	paul	17/09/07

40.	Iran talks in comfort of Russia and Syria	04:04	\|	Paul	18/09/07

41.	# 1 Chaim Gorenstein The ram was powerless to stand against him	07:57	\|	Grafted Wild Olive	18/09/07

42.	# 7 Good thinking	08:19	\|	Grafted Wild Olive	18/09/07

43.	The God of Israel will have the last word	08:58	\|	Grafted Wild Olive	18/09/07

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