(Times of Israel) Elhanan Miller - Sima Shine, who heads the Iran desk at Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, told the Times of Israel that it would take Iran "a few months" to produce enough fissile material for a single nuclear bomb and around a year and a half to produce the bomb itself. As former head of the Mossad's research department and deputy director of Israel's National Security Council, she spent years monitoring Iran's nuclear efforts. Shine said the exact timetable is of little consequence to Israel. "If they decide they're going for nuclear weapons, they are very close. Even a year or a year and a half is not a long time." Iran is adding centrifuges for uranium enrichment and is working on a parallel plutonium-based nuclear track through its reactor in Arak, Shine said. "They are slowly but surely establishing a wide and diverse [nuclear] program, without actually crossing the red line."
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