Israel's nuclear chief: Jerusalem can defend itself By HERB KEINON09/19/2012 22:32
Speaking at IAEA meeting, Shaul Chorev says Israel is not indifferent to "direct and blunt" Iranian threats to its existence."
PHOTO: ELANA KIRSH Israel is not indifferent to “direct and blunt” Iranian threats to its existence and is “competent to deter its enemies and to defend itself,” Shaul Chorev, head of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, said Wednesday.
Chorev’s comments came at the annual meeting of the 155-nation International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, where he said that Iran’s sizable enrichment of uranium and construction of a heavy water research reactor for the military production of plutonium, as well as its design and testing of components of nuclear weapons and its activities to integrate a payload onto the Shahab 3 missile, left no doubt as to the goal of Tehran’s efforts.
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