Friday, May 9, 2014

Former Israeli Nuclear Head: No Iran Bomb for Ten Years—If They Even Want It


May 08, 2014 03:00 pm | John Allen Gay

A statement highlights the Netanyahu government's tenuous position.
Trita ParsiThe former head of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission Brigadier General (res.) Uzi Eilam just dropped a bombshell (no pun intended): "The Iranian nuclear program will only be operational in another 10 years," he told the Israeli paper Yediot Ahronoth. "Even so, I am not sure that Iran wants the bomb." And he added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is employing needless fearmongering about Iran's atomic aspirations in order to further his own political aims.

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