IDF Chief of Intelligence Major-General Amos Yadlin on Wednesday told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee that Iran has crossed the “technological threshold” and is indeed capable of building a nuclear device, stating it is now a matter of the government making a decision, nothing more.

Yadlin explained what has been reported to date the Iranian officials are not forging ahead to build a bomb, a move that will bring the international community down on Tehran, but instead, continues to work enriching low grade plutonium until enough material is ready to produce significant quantities of higher grade matter towards the buildings of several nuclear devices.

Regarding what action should be taken, he stressed the Iranian problem is far from just an Israeli problem, but a world issue, with potential of radically impacting the world order as we know it, and Israel is compelled to show the international community enough evidence to compel the required action against Tehran.

Yadlin feels the opportunity to change realities is not lost, perhaps still achieved through the proper channel of diplomacy and sanctions.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)