JERUSALEM, KOMPAS.com – Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Israel could strike Iranian nuclear sites in the next two to three years.
Explicit comments including the possibility of that time period were made by the “Zionist State” minister on Wednesday (28/12/2022).
With international efforts to renew the 2015 nuclear deal stalled, Iran has ramped up its uranium enrichment.
The Tehran government’s trial could eventually also produce fuel for a nuclear bomb, although they deny having such a project.
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Experts say Iran has the potential to increase the purity of its uranium to the point where it can be weaponized within a short time.
However, Israel’s military intelligence general estimated this month that building an active warhead for Iran would still take years.
“In two or three years, you could ‘cross the skies’ to the east and take part in an attack on nuclear sites in Iran,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told “Zionist State” air force cadets in a speech . CNA extension.
For more than a decade, Israel has issued covert threats to attack its arch-rival’s nuclear facilities if it believes that a number of world powers’ diplomacy with Tehran is at a standstill.
However, some experts doubt that Israel has the military clout to inflict lasting damage on targets in Iran that are far-flung, scattered and well-defended.
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Israeli military intelligence forecasts for 2023 are that Iran will “continue its current slow pace” in the nuclear field, according to the Israel Hayom newspaper on Sunday (12/25/2022).
“Iran will only change its policy if extreme sanctions are imposed on it; then Iran may decide to accelerate enrichment at the military level,” according to the report confirmed by an Israeli military spokesman citing an original intelligence assessment.
Israel neither confirms nor denies that it possesses nuclear weapons. This ambiguous policy was designed to deter nearby enemies by avoiding provocations that could ignite an arms race.
Experts believe this to be true, having obtained the first bomb in late 1966.
Unlike Iran, Israel has not signed the Voluntary Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970, which allowed access to nuclear technology for civilian use in exchange for a denial of use. nuclear weapons.
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