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....."Iran no longer has the capability to create a nuclear weapon on its own, Israel's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, in a new assessment that would seem to make military action less likely in the near future. The new view lengthens considerably previous time frames of about a year, and suggests the programme has been seriously damaged by sabotage, sanctions or both. It lends weight to the theory that a highly sophisticated computer worm called Stuxnet was inserted successfully last year into Iran's uranium enrichment programme. A report by a former United Nations weapons inspector last week said the worm might have forced the replacement of 1,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges at Iran's main facility. Moshe Yaalon, the deputy prime minister, said western pressure would force Iran to consider whether its nuclear programme was worth pursuing. "I believe that this effort will grow, and will include areas beyond sanctions, to convince the Iranian regime that, effectiv
ely,
it must choose between continuing to seek nuclear capability and surviving," he told Israeli radio. "I don't know if it will happen in 2011 or in 2012, but we are talking in terms of the next three years."....
....."Iran no longer has the capability to create a nuclear weapon on its own, Israel's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, in a new assessment that would seem to make military action less likely in the near future. The new view lengthens considerably previous time frames of about a year, and suggests the programme has been seriously damaged by sabotage, sanctions or both. It lends weight to the theory that a highly sophisticated computer worm called Stuxnet was inserted successfully last year into Iran's uranium enrichment programme. A report by a former United Nations weapons inspector last week said the worm might have forced the replacement of 1,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges at Iran's main facility. Moshe Yaalon, the deputy prime minister, said western pressure would force Iran to consider whether its nuclear programme was worth pursuing. "I believe that this effort will grow, and will include areas beyond sanctions, to convince the Iranian regime that, effectiv
ely,
it must choose between continuing to seek nuclear capability and surviving," he told Israeli radio. "I don't know if it will happen in 2011 or in 2012, but we are talking in terms of the next three years."....
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