Yadlin said the Iranians need 25 kilograms of enriched uranium to produce a bomb. Right now, he said, “they are still at the stage of [making] grams.”
But Yadlin warned that it appears the Iranians are working on a number of secret projects which Israel has no ability to monitor. He said that Iran began enriching uranium in January 2006, and has successfully enriched uranium to 3.5%, a major achievement towards building a bomb.
He said that every country in the Middle East is worried about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, except for Syria, a close ally of Iran.
Both states support the Hezbollah, a terror group based in southern Lebanon which threatens Israel’s northern border. Yadlin said Israel faces a “triple” threat: Syria, Hezbollah, and Iran. Hezbollah has extensive connections with the Hamas, the terror group that runs the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.
In another issue relating to Iran, a senior Defense Ministry official, Amos Gilad, severely criticized Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres for saying in an interview, “Iran too, can be destroyed.”
Gilad said he opposes making the Iran nuclear issue look like Israel’s problem, when it is something that must be dealt with by the world at large.
Gilad said Israel should “not use a language of threats. It is extremely important for the world to isolate the Hamas, and extremely important to isolate Iran.”
Peres, a former prime minister who was instrumental in setting up Israel’s atomic reactor in the 1950’s, told Reuters on Monday that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, was playing a dangerous game by calling for Israel’s destruction.
“They want to wipe out Israel…Now when it comes to destruction, Iran too can be destroyed,” said Peres, adding, he didn’t mean to imply “an eye for an eye.”
“Israel would defend itself under any condition, but we don’t look upon it as an Iranian-Israeli conflict exclusively,” Peres said. Iran “is basically a danger to the world, not just to us.”
But Yadlin warned that it appears the Iranians are working on a number of secret projects which Israel has no ability to monitor. He said that Iran began enriching uranium in January 2006, and has successfully enriched uranium to 3.5%, a major achievement towards building a bomb.
He said that every country in the Middle East is worried about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, except for Syria, a close ally of Iran.
Both states support the Hezbollah, a terror group based in southern Lebanon which threatens Israel’s northern border. Yadlin said Israel faces a “triple” threat: Syria, Hezbollah, and Iran. Hezbollah has extensive connections with the Hamas, the terror group that runs the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.
In another issue relating to Iran, a senior Defense Ministry official, Amos Gilad, severely criticized Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres for saying in an interview, “Iran too, can be destroyed.”
Gilad said he opposes making the Iran nuclear issue look like Israel’s problem, when it is something that must be dealt with by the world at large.
Gilad said Israel should “not use a language of threats. It is extremely important for the world to isolate the Hamas, and extremely important to isolate Iran.”
Peres, a former prime minister who was instrumental in setting up Israel’s atomic reactor in the 1950’s, told Reuters on Monday that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, was playing a dangerous game by calling for Israel’s destruction.
“They want to wipe out Israel…Now when it comes to destruction, Iran too can be destroyed,” said Peres, adding, he didn’t mean to imply “an eye for an eye.”
“Israel would defend itself under any condition, but we don’t look upon it as an Iranian-Israeli conflict exclusively,” Peres said. Iran “is basically a danger to the world, not just to us.”