Iran has enough enriched uranium for 4 nukes

Iran has enough enriched uranium for 4 nukes 

Debka 30-Nov-13 

When the Geneva accord was signed on Nov. 24, Iran had already amassed enough enriched uranium for four nuclear bombs, and the Saudis stood ready to collect an atom bomb from a Pakistani shelf. In his phone call to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama proposed tighter US intelligence oversight for verifying Iran’s compliance with its commitments. He offered to share its findings with Israel for further analysis. However, if Israelis were co-opted – even indirectly, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif threatened to boycott the discussion on the deal’s technical details.

December 1, 2013 Briefs 

    Iran’s FM Zarif on first trip to Arab oil emirates 

    Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarir took his first trip to the Gulf emirates Sunday in an effort to ease tense relations over fears that his country is using its nuclear program to build a weapon. His first destination was Kuwait, after which he heads to Oman and the UAE. 

Pakistan’s new army chief and nuclear ties with Saudis 

1 Dec. If Pakistan’s new army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, goes through with the transfer of nuclear arms and missiles to Saudi Arabia, he ranges Islamabad on the side of Sunni versus Shiite by lending a Sunni power a nuclear capability versus a nuclear-armed Shiite Iran, whose “nuclear rights” have just been recognized by the six world powers. Gen. Sharif must also adapt Pakistan’s armed forces to the US military exit from Afghanistan next year and decide whether to allow Saudi covert operations against Iran to continue from Pakistani soil. 

December 2, 2013 Briefs 

    Tripoli under six-month Lebanese military command 

    Lebanese security forces took control of the northern city of Tripoli for six months after 12 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in three days of clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad. 

    Israel and Italy hold joint government session, sign 10 agreements 

    Visiting Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta headed a government-to-government session in Rome Monday. They signed 10 agreements focusing on advanced technology, economic start-ups and energy after Israel’s off-shore gas strikes. Monday morning, Netanyahuy paid a visit to Pope Frances. 

Ex-CIA, AMAN chiefs: A nuclear-armed Iran is unstoppable 

2 Dec. In New York and Tel Aviv, former CIA director Gen. Michael Haden and ex-chief of AMAN, Gen. (ret) Amos Yadlin, offered the same opinion, namely that Iran has reached the stage of a nuclear threshold state able to build several nuclear bombs in a matter of weeks. By this diagnosis, they indicted their respective governments for failing to stop this happening. Hayden: “We need to negotiate hitting the delete button.” Yadlin: “Iran is a step before breakout to a bomb. This is unfortunate but true.” 

Senior lawmaker Tzahi Hanegbi expressed concern that the interim deal with Iran would remain in force as the final accord, and so leave the Islamic Republic in place as a nuclear threshold state, able to build a bomb within six to seven weeks. Iran has built a uranium stockpile of 7.2 tons, enough for several bombs,” he said. 

December 3, 2013 Briefs 

    French forensic experts rule out Arafat’s death by poisoning 

    French forensic experts have ruled out Yasser Arafat’s death by poisoning, confirming an earlier conclusion by a Russian forensic lab. An inquiry instigated by Arafat’s widow and supported by the Palestinian Authority tried to prove that Israel killed Arafat by polonium poisoning. 

    Israeli humanitarian aid for besieged Syrian border villages 

    On a tour of the Golan Tuesday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said “We are helping Syrian civilians face the winter, and sending baby food and other essentials to the Syrian villages of Golan which are under (Syrian military) siege and cut off from aid from any other source.” Syrian army gunfire on an Israel Golan patrol Monday was deliberate, he said. No one was hurt. 

    Five Palestinians held in Jerusalem for rock that injured baby 

    Jerusalem police Tuesday detained five Palestinian youths from Tzur Baher village in E. Jerusalem on suspicion of throwing the rocks which hit an Israeli car and injured a two-year old child last Thursday. They admitted to throwing stones at cars out of “hatred for Jews.” More arrests are expected. 

    Unique Hasmonean structure uncovered in Jerusalem 

    An impressive structure – five meters high covering an area of 60 sq. m - has been unearthed at the City of David just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Its meter-thick walls are made of roughly hewn limestone blocks, indicating a public building or mansion of some kind. The coins found there, in addition to numerous potsherds, help date the building to early 2nd century BCE and its continued use under the Hasmonean rulers of Israel. The coins date back to the time of Antiochus III and IV, some bearing the name of Alexander Jannaeus in ancient Greek. Josephus and other historians have described Hasmonean Jerusalem, but this is the first time the remains were found of a large building of that period, after which much of the city was razed by successive conquerors..