DHAKA (4janu.) : An Iranian nuclear bomb is more dangerous than the consequences of attacking the Iranian nuclear reactors.
Channel 10 quoted former head of Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin as saying on Monday at a conference to present the Institute for National Security Studies’ (INSS) strategic assessment for 2013.
‘Iran completed all of the steps that would allow it to make a nuclear bomb when it decides to, and when it does, Israel will have to act,’ Channel 10 quoted him as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.
However, Yadlin stressed that Iran’s nuclear programme has yet to reach the point of no return and that Israel must give diplomacy a chance first.
‘They don’t have enough centrifuges. When they have over 10,000 centrifuges, it will justify an Israeli and American action,’ he said.
He also emphasised the important of ‘deepening the strategic dialogue with the United States’.
On Sunday, Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the new government’s main objective would be to stop the Iranian nuclear programme.
Tehran announced last week that it was upgrading its nuclear enrichment equipment at the Natanz nuclear plant, something that will speed up the uranium enrichment process.
