By Xinhua
Jerusalem : The Israeli intelligence head has said that Iran would attain offensive nuclear capabilities within three years, local daily Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.
Meir Dagan, head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad made the assessment in a report presented to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the Knesset (parliament) Monday, according to the daily.
Iran remains a strategic threat to Israel not only because it is striving for nuclear weapons but also because of its influence on other anti-Israel forces such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria, Dagan said.
He said that Iran is acting on two tracks: one towards the enrichment of uranium and the other towards manufacturing surface to surface missiles with large payloads. But it had not yet attained full control of the knowledge necessary to produce weapons-grade uranium though it is not far from reaching that point, he added.