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Source: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/iran-could-seek-short-build-time-for-bomb--israel
Israel: Iran Could Seek Short Build Time for Bomb
(Reuters) Dan Williams - Iran's nuclear strategy could eventually allow it to build an atomic bomb with just 60 days' notice, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday. His remarks elaborate on long-held Israeli concerns that Iran is playing for time even as it engages world powers in negotiations aimed at curbing its uranium enrichment drive. Talks are due to resume in Baghdad on May 23. "They are currently trying to achieve immunity for the nuclear program," Barak told the Israel Hayom newspaper. "If they arrive at military nuclear capability, at a weapon, or a demonstrated capability, or a threshold status in which they could manufacture a bomb within 60 days - they will achieve a different kind of immunity, regime immunity."