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January 11, 2011

Ex-Mossad Head Criticized for Admitting Iran Does Not Pose Imminent Nuclear Threat 
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The outgoing head of the Israeli spy agency Mossad is facing criticism
after he admitted Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program does not pose
an imminent threat to Israel. On his last day as the head of Mossad,
Meir Dagan said last week that he does not believe Iran will have
nuclear weapons capability before 2015 following a series of failures
that have set Iran's nuclear program back by several years. Dagan's
comments have received little attention in the United States, but caused
a stir in Israel. Sever Plocker, senior editor of the Israeli paper
Yediot, has described Dagan's assertion as "one of the most historically
important statements to have been made in the past ten years in the
State of Israel." A post on Fox News accused Dagan of sabotaging Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to build a firm
international coalition against Iran.



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