Excerpt From Blog Post:Rebecca Anna Stoil , THE JERUSALEM POST
The recently-revealed Iranian nuclear facility in the Shi'a holy city of Qom has "no possible civilian use," Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin said Tuesday morning, directly contradicting statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in September. Speaking during a briefing of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yadlin said that the Qom facility is designed for enrichment of uranium and at full capacity can hold 3,000 advanced centrifuges.
Yadlin said that the Israeli intelligence assessment was that Iran was interested in a horizontal expansion of its nuclear production capacity, so that when Teheran decides to advance to nuclear weapons capability, it will be able to do so in the shortest possible period of time.
Yadlin emphasized that Iran is "competent in enrichment technology" and has not thus far been moved by the international response to its nuclear...