Netanyahu: Iranian nuclear program is less than a year away from ‘immunity zone’

Published March 20, 2013 4:00am ET



Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Iranian nuclear program is less than one year away from an “immunity zone” that would insulate it from a military strike, which suggests that he disagrees with President Obama’s timeline, though he emphasized the cooperation on this issue between Israel and the United States.

“If Iran decides to go for a nuclear weapon, that is to manufacture a weapon, then it will take them about a year that is correct,” Netanyahu said during a joint press conference with Obama. He was commenting on the president’s comment last week that “it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon.”

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