The IDFs top intelligence officer on Thursday described cracks in the coherence of Irans resolve to push toward a nuclear weapon in the face of international sanctions and internal turmoil. Iran doesnt see a military strike against it as likely, he added.In the upper echelons of the Iranian government, just below the level of supreme leader, we continue to hear voices saying that perhaps in the face of the sanctions and the toll on Iranian society the thinking should be altered,Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said at the Herzliya security conference,
Kochavi, the head of the IDFs military intelligence directorate, said that the Iranian production of oil was slashed by nearly 50 percent during the past year, to 1.2 billion barrels a day, and that inflation was up over 60 percent.
The pressure continues to escalate, he said, and that translates into internal pressure, which is in direct correspondence with the regimes primary cause to continue to exist.
The three main issues on Tehrans agenda, he said, were furthering Iranian interests in Syria, proceeding with the development of nuclear weapons and continuing to spread the gospel of the Islamic revolution, and its devotion to terror, worldwide.
Iran currently has sufficient partially enriched uranium to build five to six bombs, he said, and estimated that the regime would continue to proceed with caution, edging ever closer to the red line and advancing to a point where the program would be positioned a sprint away from weapons deployment capacity.
In their own eyes, within the foreseeable future, he said several times during a rather grim survey of Israels position within the wider Middle East, there is no highly credible threat of an international strike.
By The Times of Israel
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