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International Safeguards
Iran, which says its nuclear facilities are for peaceful civilian purposes, has vowed to retaliate if attacked.
Iran's uranium enrichment activities are under international monitoring to prevent diversion to weapons use. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it has seen no diversion. Still, the agency reiterated last month that it "is unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities."
Netanyahu "sure made it clear that the nuclear red line is spring or summer of 2013," said Mark Dubowitz of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which has advised the administration and Congress on sanctions against Iran. "That's when Iran will have enough medium enriched uranium, at 20 percent, which is 90 percent of the way to military grade uranium, to build an atomic weapon."
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