Sources say the development could narrow the IDF's window for a potential strike on Tehran's nuclear program. Moscow is yet to confirm whether such a transfer will take place.
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is expected to travel to Turkmenistan soon to inaugurate the mission, to be located just 12 miles away from the Islamic Republic. The move is intended to send a message to Iran that Israel is a present and growing influence in the region.
“Brazil should not grant any prize to a malign state," Foreign Ministry says after South American country allows Tehran access to Rio de Janeiro port.
Hundreds of girls at around 30 schools have been sickened since November, with some winding up in hospital beds. Officials initially dismissed the incidents, only acknowledging the scope of the crisis in recent days.
The report described inspectors discovering on Jan. 21 that two cascades of IR-6 centrifuges at Iran's Fordo facility had been configured in a way “substantially different” from what had been previously declared.
The IDF said it launched a manhunt in search of the perpetrators. The two Israelis suffered critical injuries and died on their way to the hospital.
The comments by Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for Iran's civilian nuclear program, sought to portray any detection of uranium particles enriched to that level as a momentary side effect of trying to reach a finished product of 60% purity – which Tehran already has announced producing.
Speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that time is of the essence as Israel has waited "very long." Foreign Minister Eli Cohen calls on Washington to establish a credible military threat to deter Iran, stresses that Israel is ready to act alone.
"Inspectors need to determine whether Iran intentionally produced the material, or whether the concentration was an unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes," Bloomberg reports.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames Iran for targeting an Israeli-linked tanker in the Persian Gulf, adding that "we are doing – and will do – everything to defend our people and we are responding forcefully to the attacks against us."
