From NEWSMAX:
Israel believes Iran will not be able to produce a nuclear bomb before 2015 and a top Israeli official has counseled against preemptive military strikes, intelligence assessments published on Friday showed.
Given in a briefing by Mossad director Meir Dagan upon his retirement on Thursday, the assessments pointed to new Israeli confidence in U.S.-led sanctions and covert action designed to discourage or delay Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme.
They were also in line with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s circumspection — echoing misgivings voiced more publicly by the Obama administration — about resorting to force against Iran, which denies seeking nuclear arms and has vowed to retaliate against Israel and U.S. interests for any such attack…
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