Israeli PM warns that Iran is closer to making the bomb

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netanyahu  wants to attack IranIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that new centrifugesIran was installing for its uranium enrichment program could cut by a third the time needed to create a nuclear bomb.

As Iran and world powers prepare to resume talks aimed at easing a dispute that has raised fears of a new Middle East war, Tehran announced late last month it planned to install the new machines at its main enrichment plant.

The move underlined Iran’s defiance of international demands to scale back the uranium enrichment which Tehran says is for civilian purposes but which could also potentially be used to make material for atomic bombs.

Netanyahu touched on the subject in an address to American Jewish leaders and his words came ahead of a planned visit to Israel next month by President Barack Obama.

“Iran’s … nuclear weapons program continues unabated … I drew a line at the U.N. last time I was there,” Netanyahu said. “They haven’t crossed that line but what they are doing is to shorten the time that it will take them to cross that line and the way they are (doing it) is by putting in new, faster centrifuges that cut the time by one third.”

In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly in September, Netanyahu gave a rough deadline of summer 2013 as the date by which Iran could have enough highly enriched material to produce a single nuclear bomb.

He said on Monday that world powers must put more pressure on Tehran “for the interests of peace and security”.

“You have to upgrade the sanctions and they have to know that if the sanctions and diplomacy fail, they will face a credible military threat. That’s essential. Nothing else will do the job, and it’s getting closer,” he said.

Diplomats believe, however, that Iran may have resumed converting small amounts of its higher-grade enriched uranium into reactor fuel thereby slowing a growth in stockpiles that could be used to make weapons.

The White House announced last Tuesday that Obama planned to visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan this spring. It gave no exact dates for the trip, Obama’s first to Israel since taking office.

Netanyahu, who was last week nominated to form a new government after January 22 elections that his rightist Likud party won, has said Iran would top his administration’s agenda. He has five more weeks to complete forming his new coalition.

Israel’s Channel 10 television cited unnamed sources in Washington last week saying Obama’s visit to Israel would start on March 20, by when Netanyahu’s new government should be in place.

Israeli political commentators have speculated that Obama had opted to visit Israel before the summer deadline that Netanyahu laid down at the United Nations to caution him against any go-it-alone attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Reuters

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12 responses to “Israeli PM warns that Iran is closer to making the bomb”

  1. And you plan on doing what about it. The barking is getting old.

  2. And you plan on doing what about it. The barking is getting old.

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar

    North Korea is beating the Iranians on the nuclear stupidity …

    1. IraniAngel Avatar

      whats the big deal about the whole nuclear test anyway??? it is not because they killed anybody like the US. i mean last time the americancers tested their nuclear bombs they ended up wiping out japan.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Not entirely Irani …. although if those two ‘small’ explosions had not finally (1st one didn’t – Japanese were willing to fight to the death) prompted the cease-fire and surrender of Japan, it may have gone 2 more years with many more deaths on both sides and the total levelling by pave-bombing their island with conventional explosives.
        You will also recall that this is where ‘humankind’ actually learned what nuclear actually CAN do to people – and in it’s after-effects the suffering of many – and was the best example for the later decisions to NOT get into using the damn nuclear in war any more. (Later super-bombs were a form of human insanity – probably caused by shell-shock in those who lived two world wars.)
        All deaths from nuclear since that time have been in ‘our’ trying to safely use it to make electricity – which is why there is a desire by knowledgable people to know that present-day ‘safety standards’ are being met – through inspections …. although as we also know it only takes one idiot to start a chain of errors to fry things for the next millennia. (Chernobyl)
        North Korea – led by the ‘Ill God-family’ – has already killed millions of it’s own citizens through starvation and other hardships, while pumping all resources to the God and his militant brain-washed ‘society leaders’ with ‘pet projects’ designed to show they can ‘beat up’ the South Koreans any time they wish – as well as the UN backers of the Koreans of the south in a war that has never ended. (Shaky truce for half a century.)
        So the uber-fat new god-ruler of North Korea has designed ‘compact’ nuclear bombs which he can throw around at anyone. Considering the ‘God’ cares little for what his own citizens live like, this doesn’t cause you to worry a little? Or you think your God will ‘make it right’?
        And you think an Ayatolla is good enough to do safety inspections?
        If the USA had been like the ‘Ill-God’ of North Korea, we would not be having this conversation, the USA would not be having to send ‘aid’ to anyone, gas would be really cheap, and the last of humanity would be waiting for the background radiation of the world to reach finally into their caves and end all the ‘god-thought’ forever.
        And to some extent, we do that now …. hmmm …

  4. 5thDrawer Avatar

    North Korea is beating the Iranians on the nuclear stupidity …

    1. IraniAngel Avatar

      whats the big deal about the whole nuclear test anyway??? it is not because they killed anybody like the US. i mean last time the americancers tested their nuclear bombs they ended up wiping out japan.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Not entirely Irani …. although if those two ‘small’ explosions had not finally (1st one didn’t – Japanese were willing to fight to the death) prompted the cease-fire and surrender of Japan, it may have gone 2 more years with many more deaths on both sides and the total levelling by pave-bombing their island with conventional explosives.
        You will also recall that this is where ‘humankind’ actually learned what nuclear actually CAN do to people – and in it’s after-effects the suffering of many – and was the best example for the later decisions to NOT get into using the damn nuclear in war any more. (Later super-bombs were a form of human insanity – probably caused by shell-shock in those who lived two world wars.)
        All deaths from nuclear since that time have been in ‘our’ trying to safely use it to make electricity – which is why there is a desire by knowledgable people to know that present-day ‘safety standards’ are being met – through inspections …. although as we also know it only takes one idiot to start a chain of errors to fry things for the next millennia. (Chernobyl)
        North Korea – led by the ‘Ill God-family’ – has already killed millions of it’s own citizens through starvation and other hardships, while pumping all resources to the God and his militant brain-washed ‘society leaders’ with ‘pet projects’ designed to show they can ‘beat up’ the South Koreans any time they wish – as well as the UN backers of the Koreans of the south in a war that has never ended. (Shaky truce for half a century.)
        So the uber-fat new god-ruler of North Korea has designed ‘compact’ nuclear bombs which he can throw around at anyone. Considering the ‘God’ cares little for what his own citizens live like, this doesn’t cause you to worry a little? Or you think your God will ‘make it right’?
        And you think an Ayatolla is good enough to do safety inspections?

  5. alisar smith Avatar
    alisar smith

    I think it would be a better idea to talk about peace not war.
    It would be good if he allows the Palastinian refugees to go home.
    It would be good if he stops taking Arab lands.
    The world would be pleased if he stops building homes on occupied lands.

  6. alisar smith Avatar
    alisar smith

    I think it would be a better idea to talk about peace not war.
    It would be good if he allows the Palastinian refugees to go home.
    It would be good if he stops taking Arab lands.
    The world would be pleased if he stops building homes on occupied lands.

  7. He is right…….Korea just set off another nuclear device……..and the world can only watch……..
    Just wait until Iran gets theirs………Then no one will touch them, and Iran knows it………

    ……Joel 2:30……..“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

  8. Plumbline Avatar

    He is right…….Korea just set off another nuclear device……..and the world can only watch……..
    Just wait until Iran gets theirs………Then no one will touch them, and Iran knows it………

    ……Joel 2:30……..“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke.

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