Israel says Iran’s supposed nuclear programme delayed by 2 years amid fresh attacks
The comment comes after US President Donald Trump warned Iran of a ‘maximum’ of two weeks for Tehran to avoid possible American air strikes
Israel claimed on Saturday it has already set back Iran’s presumed nuclear programme by at least two years, a day after a warning by US President Donald Trump of a “maximum” of two weeks for Tehran to avoid possible American air strikes.
Trump has been mulling whether to involve the US in Israel’s bombing campaign, indicating in his latest comments that he could decide before the two-week deadline he set this week.
Israel said Saturday its air force had launched fresh air strikes against missile storage and launch sites in central Iran, as it kept up a wave of attacks it said were aimed at preventing its rival from developing nuclear weapons – an ambition Tehran has denied.
“According to the assessment we hear, we already delayed for at least two or three years the possibility for them to have a nuclear bomb,” Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said in an interview published on Saturday.
Saar said Israel’s week-long onslaught would continue. “We will do everything that we can do there in order to remove this threat,” he told the German newspaper Bild.
Top diplomats from Britain, France and Germany met their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, in Geneva on Friday and urged him to resume talks with the US, which had been derailed by Israel’s attacks.