Outgoing Head of Mossad Says Iran Won’t Have Nuclear Weapons Until 2015

Israeli authorities have revised their prediction on when Iranian Islamic regime could be able to produce its first nuclear weapon, ascertaining that there is no way that would happen before 2015.

The assessment was made by outgoing head of Mossad Meir Dagan in a briefing published on Friday.

The head of Mossad revises previous estimates that were saying that Iran could have nuclear weapons in a year or two.

Dagan is basing his prediction on several factors such as the unrest in Iran, the technological difficulties and the fruits the international sanctions are bearing already.

Israeli analysts consider that one of the most important technical problems the Iranian scientists were facing during the last year was the Stuxnet virus, which is supposed to have infected the computer systems in the nuclear facilities in Bushehr.

The virus is supposed to have been the reason for the setbacks last year, and is considered of Israeli design.

Gerald Steinberg says “we have seen the worm, the virus that attacked the computers that run Iranian uranium enrichment process.”

He also says that scientists were killed and injured, and the international sanctions are beginning to pay off, as strange movements are taking place on the political landscape in Tehran.

A few months ago the president has dismissed the foreign minister, then 14 advisors; it is said that an impeachment action began against him and that it took the intervention of clergy to tone it down.

All there are construed as signs that the radical regime is beginning to crack from within, in spite of the reassurances of the Iranians who say that the sanctions will only make them stronger, and that Iran has a “sacred right” to have nuclear energy.