(Iran International) Senior Israeli experts from IDF Military Intelligence spoke to Maariv about Iran. They noted that while the regime pledges to destroy the Jewish state, it is more concerned with internal threats. They said 80% of the Iranian public does not support the regime, reaffirming the belief that the regime's power is waning. "This protest expresses deep trends that exist in the Iranian public of moving away from the regime's values and a dramatic decrease in trust in it," one officer said. Iran knows the U.S. has no plans to launch an attack of any kind, further emboldening the regime. Iran is nearing the upper end of enrichment to 90% and even a return to the nuclear deal cannot change this. One senior officer said, "In our opinion, Iran does not seek to develop nuclear weapons in the immediate term. And even if they reach 90% enrichment now, then even once they decide to develop a bomb and assuming no one prevents them from doing so, it will take them between two and three years. Iran understands that the development of nuclear weapons is a very dangerous issue, and no one in Tehran wants to take a step that they will regret." "Today we are preparing much more for a possible attack on Iran, and are making much more offensive and defensive military preparations in the Iranian context," an official said.
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