Can I hear a, "Faster please?"
The head of Israeli military intelligence, General Aharon Zeevi, claimed on Monday that Iran could be in a position to develop nuclear weapons without outside help within six months. As the UN's nuclear watchdog prepared to meet on Monday to set a deadline for Iran to allay suspicions it is secretly making atomic weapons, Zeevi said time was rapidly running out for the international community to deal with Tehran.
"The next six months will determine if Iran will achieve in the spring of 2005 a non-conventional capability in the sphere of nuclear research and development," he said in remarks broadcast by public radio. "In other words, it will no longer require external assistance to acquire an unconventional capability. "This does not mean that it will have a bomb in 2005. It means that it will have all the means at its disposal to build a bomb." Zeevi said that failure to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons would merely encourage other regimes to develop an atomic arsenal. |