El Baradei: Iran only months away from a bomb
By JPOST.COM STAFF

IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment
that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.

If Teheran indeed resumed its uranium enrichment in other plants, as
threatened, it will take it only "a few months" to produce a nuclear bomb,
El-Baradei told The Independent.

On the other hand, he warned, any attempt to resolve the crisis by
non-diplomatic means would "open a Pandora's box. There would be efforts to
isolate Iran; Iran would retaliate; and at the end of the day you have to go
back to the negotiating table to find the solution."

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In the end, we're not negotiating with Saddam. What makes El-Baradei think
his circumstances will be different.