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ACHTERGROND - Gisteren sprak Benjamin Netanyahu het Congress van de VS toe. Daarin sprak hij de volgende woorden:

The difference is that ISIS is armed with butcher knives, captured weapons and YouTube, whereas Iran could soon be armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs.

Because Iran’s nuclear program would be left largely intact, Iran’s break-out time would be very short — about a year by U.S. assessment, even shorter by Israel’s.

And if — if Iran’s work on advanced centrifuges, faster and faster centrifuges, is not stopped, that break-out time could still be shorter, a lot shorter.

Now I want you to think about that. The foremost sponsor of global terrorism could be weeks away from having enough enriched uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons and this with full international legitimacy.

Oftewel, Iran heeft bijna een atoombom. Maar deze uitspraak van Netanyahu doet sterk denken aan eerdere uitspraken van hem. We gaan terug in de tijd en zetten bekende waarschuwingen over het acute gevaar voor u op een rij.

1 oktober 2013, speech VN:

And why would a country with a peaceful nuclear program develop intercontinental ballistic missiles, whose sole purpose is to deliver nuclear warheads? You don’t build ICBMs to carry TNT thousands of miles away; you build them for one purpose, to carry nuclear warheads. And Iran is building now ICBMs that the United States says could reach this city in three or four years.