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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Al-Jazeeras-release-of-Mossad-cables-falls-short-391976
Leaked Document Shows No Wedge between Mossad and Netanyahu on Iran's Nuclear Program
(Jerusalem Post) Yossi Melman - A leaked document that allegedly highlights differences on Iran between the Mossad and Prime Minister Netanyahu is a South African State Security Agency (SSA) document that describes a briefing given to them by the Mossad in 2013. The document contains no secrets. The Mossad provided details of the quantities of Iran's enriched uranium at its two levels - 3.5% and 20% - and stated that Iran is "not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons." That assessment was correct - it isn't possible to utilize fissile material for a bomb with only 20%-enriched uranium - an enrichment of 93% is required - and Iran did not have it at the time and doesn't have it now. Certainly that doesn't present any evidence of a wedge between the Mossad and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with regard to Iran's nuclear program. Israeli intelligence estimates are that Iran is working to be a nuclear power but is not able to build a bomb right now.