Iran could manufacture an atomic bomb “fairly quickly” as there has been no change in its “nuclear vision”, Israel’s Military Intelligence chief Maj Gen Aviv Kochavi has said.
“Iran still seeks to reach the status of a nuclear threshold State, in which it could manufacture a nuclear bomb fairly quickly and when it decided to do so,” Kochavi wrote in a position paper late last month.
He authored the paper in his capacity as the “national intelligence assessor”, the Ha’aretz daily reported.
Kochavi pointed out that since the election of moderate Hassan Rohani, Iran was going through a process of deep internal political change of a kind not seen in many years. Rohani has reached out to the West to ease sanctions.