Timed to follow on the delivery of Tehran's response to the big powers' offer of nuclear talks, US intelligence agencies informed the New York Times Thursday, Sept. 10, that they have concluded in recent months that "Iran has created enough nuclear fuel to make a rapid, if risky, spring for a nuclear weapon."
The White House is quoted as saying that "Iran has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb."
A few hours earlier, a US diplomat warned that Iran is close to producing its first nuclear bomb.
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IDF preparing for US missile systems
The Defense Ministry is preparing for the possibility that the United States will decide to leave missile defense systems in Israel following a joint missile defense exercise the two countries will hold next month, senior officials said Sunday.
