Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen: Iran Not Close to Achieving Nuclear Weapon

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "In the JCPOA (ed. note: the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to rein in Tehran's nuclear program, signed by Iran with world powers in 2015)
44% : "They should not sleep quietly in Iran," he said.
43% : and there is "less foreign support for what [Iran is] doing than in the past."
41% : "I think that Iran, to this day, is not even close to acquiring a nuclear weapon," he said.
36% : Nevertheless, if Iran does succeed in developing such a weapon, Cohen said, Israel must be able to stop it.
35% : "Unless Iran comes completely clean about their deeds in the past, a nuclear agreement should not be signed," Cohen said, referring to current negotiations between Iran and world powers on a new document. "
34% : Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen told participants at the 10th Annual Conference of The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that Iran "is not even close" to achieving a nuclear weapon of mass destruction.

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