Iran will be able to achieve a nuclear bomb within one or two years, the Israel Defense Forces Military Intelligence Chief said on Tuesday.
"The question is not when Iran will have the bomb. The question is how long it will take for an Iranian leader to decide to have the centrifuges start enriching at 90 percent," Military Intelligence Chief, Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi said during a meeting with the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees.
Kochavi said he does not expect an Iranian leader to make such a decision in the next year out of a fear of harming the government, which is already paying an economic price over fear of their nuclear program.
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