Iran moving closer to stage where it will be too late to destroy nuclear facilities, Israel warns
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Iran moving closer to stage where it will be too late to
destroy nuclear facilities, Israel warns
Iran is moving closer to the point when it will be too late to
destroy its nuclear facilities with a precision air strike,
Israel's defence minister has warned
Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, speaks at the World
Economic Forum in Davos Photo: AFP/GETTY
By Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem
7:40PM GMT 27 Jan 2012
The Telegraph UK
Reviving Western concerns that his government is still
contemplating unilateral military action against Iran, Ehud Barak
gave one of the clearest signs yet that Israel's support for new
US and EU sanctions remains strictly limited.
"We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear," he told
the World Economic Forum in Davos. "And even the American
president and opinion leaders have said that no option should be
removed from the table.
"It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are
deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where
practically no surgical operation could block them."
Although Israeli intelligence and military officials have
privately spoken of Iran's nuclear programme entering a "framework
of immunity", it is the first time that a senior figure in
Benjamin Netanyahu's government has done so in public.
Israel's fears that it might soon be too late to launch military
action were bolstered earlier this month when Iran announced that
it had begun to enrich uranium at its Fordow plant, which is
buried so deep within a mountain it may be impossible for Israeli
warplanes or missiles to destroy.
Mr Barak's ministry believes that once the bulk of uranium
enrichment is carried out at Fordow, Iran will be in the immunity
zone. Israel also reckons that Iran could be in a position to
build a bomb within months, although US officials have been quoted
as saying that Tehran will not be able to fit a nuclear warhead
onto a missile for some years.
Mr Barak's warning came as inspectors from the International
Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear watchdog, prepare to resume
inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities.
Yukiya Amano, the organisation's head, urged Iran to show full
co-operation after an IAEA report published last November
concluded that Iran appeared to be pursuing the development of a
nuclear weapon. Tehran has long insisted that its nuclear
programme is peaceful in intent.
Iran has sent conflicting signals over its nuclear intentions. It
has agreed to allow inspections and has spoken vaguely of its
willingness to resume negotiations on the future of its nuclear
programme.
But it has also threatened to seal off the world's most important
oil waterway by blockading the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian
Gulf.
In a demonstration of bravado, the Iranian parliament is to meet
on Sunday to impose an immediate halt to all oil exports to the
European Union.
The EU agreed this week to an embargo on importing oil from Iran,
but said it would phase in the sanctions over six months.
If Iran carried out its threat it would pose serious challenges to
Greece, Spain and Italy, the EU’s three most vulnerable economies,
which account for more than 80 per cent of Iranian oil imports to
Europe.
But such a measure would also harm Iran, which exports 18 per cent
of its oil to the EU, as there is no guarantee that it would find
alternative markets unless it was prepared to sell crude at a
heavy discount.
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