Israel issues warning on report on Iran bomb

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Israel issues warning on report on Iran bomb

Oren Dorell, USA TODAY 7:17 p.m. EDT October 25, 2013

A new report that says Iran may need as little as a month to produce enough uranium for a nuclear bomb is further evidence for why Israel will take military action before that happens, an Israeli defense official said Friday.



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Story Highlights

• Report: Iran is developing and installing new and advanced centrifuges that can make bomb in month
  
• President Obama has said Iran is a year or more away from having enough enriched uranium to make a bomb
  

A new report that says Iran may need as little as a month to produce enough uranium for a nuclear bomb is further evidence for why Israel will take military action before that happens, an Israeli defense official said Friday.
"We have made it crystal clear – in all possible forums, that Israel will not stand by and watch Iran develop weaponry that will put us, the entire Middle East and eventually the world, under an Iranian umbrella of terror," Danny Danon, Israel's deputy defense minister told USA TODAY.