(Reuters) -Iranaims to start a reactor next year which the West fears could arm an atomic bomb;Israel, which has bombed suchconstructionsites around the Middle East before, may try to stop the plant being completed. The timetable for the planned start-up of the Arak heavy-water research plant is closely watched: Israeli and Western experts say any ...

TEHRAN, May 27 (MNA) Remarks by a former Israeli military intelligence chief has revealed fear of Israeli officials if Iran responded an Israeli air strike on nuclear facilities. Al-Fajr news website reported that Amos Yadlin, former head of Israeli military intelligence organization had said that if Israeli attacked Irans nuclear centers, it would ...

[caption id="attachment_26319" align="alignright" width="300"] Amos Yadlin JPost conference April 28 2013[/caption] Iran has witnessed that Israeli and the US are serious in regard to claims that they will react when "red lines" are crossed, stated Amos Yadlin, INSS director and former military intelligence chief, Sunday morning. In light of reports ...

A top security source told Channel Ten that despite appearances to the contrary, Israel's military option on Iran was very much alive, and that Iran was reaching the point where construction of a nuclear weapon was within reach. The official, whose identity was kept under wraps, is considered a highly placed, highly reliable source. The official said ...

[caption id="attachment_26319" align="alignright" width="300"] Amos Yadlin JPost conference April 28 2013[/caption] Former Israeli Defense Force chief of Defense Intelligence, retired Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, says the US and its negotiating partners erred by offering Iran a small confidence-building deal this year insteadof a comprehensive agreement ...

In aftermath of Yadlin, Olmert comments, defense minister calls on formerofficials to "show more responsibility." Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon visited the Hatzerim air base in southern Israel on Tuesday, accompanied by IAF Chief Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz. During his visit, when asked about recent comments ...

[caption id="attachment_26319" align="alignright" width="300"] Amos Yadlin JPost conference April 28 2013[/caption] NEW YORK The question of whether it is more dangerous to allow Iran to go nuclear or to launch a preventative military strike is the question of the day, former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told attendees at the 2013Jerusalem ...

Maj. Gen. (ret.)Amos Yadlin says 'We are headed toward a collision course by the end of this year,' adding that Israel is capable of attacking Iran on its own. One day after Israeli and U.S. defense ministers finalized a $10 billion sale of American military equipment to Israel, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, the former director of Military Intelligence,...

The Obama administrations recent selections of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense and John Kerry as secretary of state are an indicationthat the US president will be hesitant to take military action against Irans nuclear program, former IDF military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin said on Tuesday. The two former senators, Hagel, who has yet to ...

Iran has all components to assemble a nuclear bomb in the next four to six months, said Israel's former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that at the current enrichment rates Tehran would soon finish the medium-enrichment enrichment and move on to stock enough enriched uranium for ...

Israeli threats to strike Iran's nuclear program and send shock waves throughout the world are "unhelpful," and Jerusalem should lower its profile on the issue, director of the Institute for National Security Studies, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, said Monday. Yadlin, a former Military Intelligence chief, spoke at the unveiling of the INSS's strategic ...