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Source: http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=279737
U.S., Israel Differ on Iran over One Word: Capability
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Netanyahu said: There is a need to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability. Panetta said: "We will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon." But he did not say anything about keeping the Iranians from gaining nuclear weapons capability. In Netanyahu's view, Tehran must be stopped before it has all the technical pieces in place and just needs to make the decision to put them together. In Panetta's view, the U.S. has no intention of preventing the Iranians from achieving the capabilities, only from actually putting all the capabilities they accumulate into a nuclear bomb. This difference has huge operational ramifications.