Amos Yadlin: Israel's goal to enable Trump to reach better Iran deal than 2015
In an interview with Al-Monitor, former head of the Israeli military intelligence directorate Amos Yadlin talks about the extent of the damage Israel has thus far inflicted on Iran and the strategic goals of the war.
Israel has not yet attacked Fordow, Iran’s most advanced site for the enrichment of uranium, but former head of Israeli military intelligence Amos Yadlin warns that Tehran is advancing toward nuclear weaponization.
Speaking with Al-Monitor, Yadlin said, "Iran started removing all sorts of barriers," which should enable it, when the leadership in Tehran decides to do so, to put together a nuclear bomb.
Elements of Iran’s nuclear program
According to Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), the Iranian nuclear program is composed of a multitude of elements, such as conversion facilities to transform uranium into gas and uranium enrichment facilities. In order to obtain a bomb, Iran needs not only to enrich uranium to levels 90% and to obtain ballistic missiles capable of transporting the bomb from Iran to Israel; it must also develop and construct the bomb itself, in the form of a nuclear warhead to be installed on a ballistic missile and with a detonation mechanism, explained the INSS. This last phase is called the "weaponization process."
