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Prime Minister tells CBS Iran "won't be allowed to cross" uranium threshold, though warns that Iran is closer than ever.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a rhetorical offensive against Iran on Sunday. The move came amid unease that the world might be enticed by a compromise proposal that Jerusalem believes Tehran is hatching, and concern that regional turmoil was distracting everyones attention from Irans nuclear march.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, told an American audience on CBS Newss Face the Nation that regarding the 20% enriched uranium, the Islamic Republic was just 60 kilograms short of crossing his red line.
He defined this line beyond which the Iranians should not be allowed to proceed as being the possession of 250 kg. of 20% enriched uranium, enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb. He said they now had 190 kg., up from about 110 six to eight months ago.
Netanyahu said the Iranians were also building faster centrifuges that would enable them to jump the line at a much faster rate. That is, within a few weeks.
Theyre getting closer, he said. They should understand that theyre not going to be allowed to cross it.
Asked when he would make a decision to attack, Netanyahu responded: I can tell you I wont wait until its too late. He added that it was important to understand that we cannot allow it to happen, and that the Israeli and US clocks on this matter were ticking at a different pace.
Were closer [to Iran] than the United States, he said.
Were more vulnerable. And therefore, well have to address this question of how to stop Iran, perhaps before the United States does. But as the prime minister of Israel, Im determined to do whatever is necessary to defend my country, the one and only Jewish state, from a regime that threatens us with renewed annihilation.
Netanyahus tough rhetoric is widely seen as an attempt to reinsert a sense of urgency regarding Iran, urgency that some in Jerusalem feel has been lost due to the election last month of Hassan Rouhani as Irans new president, and also because of the tumultuous events roiling the region.
I have a sense theres no sense of urgency, Netanyahu said. All the problems that we have [in the region], however important, will be dwarfed by this messianic, apocalyptic, extreme regime that would have atomic bombs. It would make a terrible, catastrophic change for the world and for the United States.
Regarding Rouhani, Netanyahu said the Iranian president-elect had criticized his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for being a wolf in wolfs clothing. His strategy is, be a wolf in sheeps clothing. Smile and build a bomb.
Iran also figured prominently in comments Netanyahu made earlier in the day at the weekly cabinet meeting, saying that a month after Irans elections the Islamic Republic continued to quickly sail forward toward nuclear capability.
Netanyahu: Iran 'weeks away' from crossing red line | JPost | Israel News
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu launched a rhetorical offensive against Iran on Sunday. The move came amid unease that the world might be enticed by a compromise proposal that Jerusalem believes Tehran is hatching, and concern that regional turmoil was distracting everyones attention from Irans nuclear march.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, told an American audience on CBS Newss Face the Nation that regarding the 20% enriched uranium, the Islamic Republic was just 60 kilograms short of crossing his red line.
He defined this line beyond which the Iranians should not be allowed to proceed as being the possession of 250 kg. of 20% enriched uranium, enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb. He said they now had 190 kg., up from about 110 six to eight months ago.
Netanyahu said the Iranians were also building faster centrifuges that would enable them to jump the line at a much faster rate. That is, within a few weeks.
Theyre getting closer, he said. They should understand that theyre not going to be allowed to cross it.
Asked when he would make a decision to attack, Netanyahu responded: I can tell you I wont wait until its too late. He added that it was important to understand that we cannot allow it to happen, and that the Israeli and US clocks on this matter were ticking at a different pace.
Were closer [to Iran] than the United States, he said.
Were more vulnerable. And therefore, well have to address this question of how to stop Iran, perhaps before the United States does. But as the prime minister of Israel, Im determined to do whatever is necessary to defend my country, the one and only Jewish state, from a regime that threatens us with renewed annihilation.
Netanyahus tough rhetoric is widely seen as an attempt to reinsert a sense of urgency regarding Iran, urgency that some in Jerusalem feel has been lost due to the election last month of Hassan Rouhani as Irans new president, and also because of the tumultuous events roiling the region.
I have a sense theres no sense of urgency, Netanyahu said. All the problems that we have [in the region], however important, will be dwarfed by this messianic, apocalyptic, extreme regime that would have atomic bombs. It would make a terrible, catastrophic change for the world and for the United States.
Regarding Rouhani, Netanyahu said the Iranian president-elect had criticized his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for being a wolf in wolfs clothing. His strategy is, be a wolf in sheeps clothing. Smile and build a bomb.
Iran also figured prominently in comments Netanyahu made earlier in the day at the weekly cabinet meeting, saying that a month after Irans elections the Islamic Republic continued to quickly sail forward toward nuclear capability.
Netanyahu: Iran 'weeks away' from crossing red line | JPost | Israel News
