Haaretz reports today that Israel is working on the assumption that the only thing holding back the Iran from achieving military nuclear capacity is the making of the political decision to proceed. Presumably this is what they told the Americans last week when the chiefs of staff of he two countries' armed forces met in Washington. The US chief of staff said in early March he thought Iran had enough fissile material to make a bomb, but it would not be with 'weapon-grade' uranium.
Military Intelligence head Amos Yadlin warned on Wednesday that Iran had "crossed the technological threshold" for making a nuclear weapon.
He also said that the Islamic Republic had finished developing surface-to-surface missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.
Maj. Gen. Yadlin made the comments during a briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Yadlin said achieving a military nuclear capacity "was mainly dependent on a political decision by Iran.
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