Representative Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, said �pressure is mounting� for action other than economic sanctions to stop�Iran�from developing nuclear weapons.
�Everybody agrees that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program,� Rogers, a Michigan Republican, said on CNN�s �State of the Union� program today. �The last part of it is, can they take the highly enriched uranium, weaponize it and put it on a missile for use? And there�s the debate: How long would it take to accomplish the last piece of that?�

President�Barack Obama�told an Israeli television station last week that his administration believes that Iran is at least a year away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Rogers said he wasn�t as certain as the president on the timing of when Iran may have the capability to launch a nuclear strike.

�The Israelis believe it is sooner than that, and that�s why the pressure is mounting for some action, maybe other than sanctions for Iran, so they get the signal that we really won�t tolerate them getting a nuclear weapon and then proliferating nuclear weapons across the�Middle East,� Rogers said.

By Bloomberg

 

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