‘Iran already past nuclear red line,’ expert says
‘Iran already past nuclear red line,’ expert says | The Times of Israel.
Former IDF intel chief says Tehran will be able to break out to the bomb this summer; calls for drastic increase in sanctions
Iran has essentially crossed the “red line” set by Israel for its nuclear activity, and the coming few months will be a crucial period, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, a former head of IDF Military Intelligence, said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a security conference in Tel Aviv, Yadlin said that “for all intents and purposes, Iran has crossed Israel’s red line… in the summer, Iran will be a month or two away from deciding about a bomb.”
Unless there is a drastic increase in international pressure on the Islamic Republic, Yadlin said, Iran will continue to expand its nuclear program.
“There won’t be an agreement if there isn’t a price for [not] reaching one,” he added.
In a speech before the UN last September, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out a “red line” for Iran, and in later interviews he clarified that Iran’s enrichment activities must stop before they produce enough 20%-enriched uranium for a single bomb, some 240 kg. (529 lbs).
Yadlin said that because of the June Iranian elections, Israel and the West had until then to decide on a military option to destroy or curtail Iran’s nuclear operation, and expressed assurance that Israel was up to the task with or without direct help from the US.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out his ‘red line’ for Iran on a cartoon bomb drawing during a September 27 speech to the General Assembly (photo credit: Avi Ohayun, GPO)
Also speaking at the Tel Aviv conference, former intelligence and justice minister MK Tzachi Hanegbi said time was running out.
“it’s now or never,” said Hanegbi, but “the option of never does not exist.”
Hanegbi addressed his comments to US President Barack Obama and said, “You cannot subject your considerations to our needs,” meaning that the US has many other considerations and Israel has to act according to its own imperatives.
The possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran gained additional traction on Monday, when US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon announced in Tel Aviv an unprecedented US sale of advanced military equipment to Israel, including radar systems, missiles, refueling planes and V-22 planes, which would greatly increase the IAF’s capacity to carry out a long-range attack.
Mitch Ginsburg contributed to this report.
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WarSclerotic 
April 23, 2013 at 3:34 PM
Lately, all of us are feeling the heat. There is no doubt about it. And yes, we heard ”Wolf ! Wolf !” so many times, that we are already tired and may be don’t believe that the ”thing” will ever happen.
But I’ll tell you very seriously that something very big is in cooking and someone will get kick in the as…s pretty soon, sorry my Italian.
The enrichment facilities are first on the hit list. No nuclear reactors will be hit this time, because of the radiation that will spread all over the region. Any Iranian nuclear reactor – Bushehr, ”par example” – is a potential Chernobyl and we don’t want that on our record. The second strike – if needed – will be painful and will level all the business there, depending very much on the Iranian reaction to the first strike. We expect the action to start very soon.
April 23, 2013 at 5:09 PM
I believe Iran will force a second strike and commit suicide. As for the USA, the actions of these murderous muslim bastards in Boston will force Iran into the spotlight and seal its fate. The American people are fed up and starting to push back against the muslim community here. Any more attacks will only speed the process and infuriate more Americans. They know it. We know it. So who blinks first?
April 23, 2013 at 9:54 PM
Seeing more and more articles linking Iran to the Boston bombing and the planned attack in Canada.
April 23, 2013 at 11:10 PM
…And for the time being, the war between the Shiites and Sunnis is only spreading, from the tensions in Iraq to the latest calling to jihad against the Shiites in Syria by the Sunnis from Lebanon. In the latest days, many hundreds of Sunnis fighters from Lebanon crossed the border in Syria and are fighting there against the Hezbollah. Its only a matter of time until big sh!t will spark and explode in Lebanon, extending the Syrian war, which is already an issue beyond Assad and his regime.
Even in these conditions, in which the bitter enemies of Israel are killing one each other, the Israeli state cannot wait for ever to solve the Iranian problem. A few well concentrated blows are to be expected on certain nuclear facilities in Iran, for delaying the Iranian nuclear program for a more couple of years.
April 24, 2013 at 12:08 AM
Those from the Chamberlin school of let’s give peace a chance, will get many more killed because of their blinding nievate! Now the “red lines” that we’re put down are being marched over and laughed at. The Mullahs believe they’re following Allahs will to kill all infidels that do not convert to Islam. This war will happen, and many more will die because of weak willed leadership. It is written!