Israel: Iran Already At “Advanced Work” On Nuclear Warheads
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (AFP) Jan 26, 2008
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, in an interview published Saturday, that Iran is “quite advanced” in its work on atomic weapons and may already be fashioning a nuclear warhead.
“We suspect they are probably already working on warheads for ground-to-ground missiles,” Barak said in an interview with The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine.
He also suggested that Iranians “probably … have another clandestine enrichment operation beyond the one in Natanz.”
The remarks were in stark contrast the conclusion of a US National Intelligence Estimate released late last year that said Tehran had abandoned its quest for nuclear weapons as far back as 2003.
Barak sharply disagreed with this assessment.
“Our interpretation is that clearly the Iranians are aiming at nuclear capability,” he said. “It’s probably true that … they may have slowed down the weapons group in 2003, because it was the height of American militarism.”
But he said Israel now believed that Iranians “are quite advanced, much beyond the level of the Manhattan Project.”
He did not elaborate.
The World War II-era Manhattan Project helped the United States develop the nuclear bombs that were dropped in August of 1945 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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January 26th, 2008 at 2:06 amThe plans to destroy Iran’s nuke capacity are already in place. They only need a CIC with the guts to pull it off. Is Ohmert that guy? I don’t think so. Bibi is another story.
The big question that Ohmert needs to ask is “does Israel want to prevent another Holocaoust or not?” Does the US want to prevent another NK or not?
We’ll see. Time is running short.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:17 amYeah our window of opportunity is closing day by day. We have no idea where they are on their nuke capabilities. All the stuff coming in from Russia and God only knows where else. The world is foolish for waiting this long
January 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am