ISRAEL STRUCK BECAUSE IRAN WERE JUST MONTHS AWAY FROM PRODUCING A NUCLEAR BOMB

 Was Iran months away from producing a nuclear bomb?

Was Iran months away from producing a nuclear bomb? Israel's PM says it struck Iran at the heart of its "weaponization programme", but Iran insists its nuclear faci...

Was Iran months away from producing a nuclear bomb?

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Iran insists its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and that it enriches uranium to produce fuel for power plants like Bushehr

Israel has struck dozens of targets across Iran, damaging the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz and assassinating top military commanders and nuclear scientists in Tehran.

After the first wave of attacks on Thursday night, the Iranian foreign minister condemned what he called Israel's "reckless" attacks, external on his country's "peaceful nuclear facilities". Iran has since launched retaliatory air strikes on Israel.

Abbas Araghchi said Natanz was operated under the monitoring of the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and that the strikes on the facility risked a "radiological disaster".

However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the operation was necessary to "roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival".

He said Israel had acted because "if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time".

"It could be a year. It could be within a few months," he warned.FULL ARTICLE AT:  Was Iran months away from producing a nuclear bomb?