(Ha'aretz) Akiva Eldar and Gideon Alon - Iran will be capable of enriching uranium within the next three months, but will have to overcome many technological obstacles before reaching the nuclear "point of no return," Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said on Tuesday. "Even if the Iranians pass the uranium-enrichment stage, they are still a number of years away from building the bomb," he told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Halutz estimated that Iran could be able to produce a nuclear bomb between 2008 and 2015.
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