Iran
and the International Atomic Energy Agency wrapped up a round of talks
this week aimed at resolving Western suspicions that Iran is seeking to
develop nuclear-bomb capability, and officials said they planned further
discussions.
“There
is no doubt that Iran is striving for a bomb,” Gantz said in an
address to the annual Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center
academic campus north of Tel Aviv. Its activities “must be disrupted,”
he said.
U.S.
intelligence agencies think Iran is developing capabilities to produce
nuclear weapons “should it chose to do so,” James Clapper,
the U.S. director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence
Committee Jan. 31.
“We
do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear
weapons,” he said.
In
Washington, a policy group called for providing Israel with additional
bunker-buster bombs to increase pressure on Iran not to go nuclear.
The
Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Project called yesterday
for providing Israel with 200 GBU-31 bombs and two or three KC-135 aerial
refueling tankers. Israel has a different variant of the bunker buster
and about a dozen aerial tankers, which would be needed to enable Israeli
warplanes to strike targets in Iran, according to a report by the group.
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