Israeli reporter, war hero, and Sharon confidant Uri Dan writes that Iran may already have the bomb. If so, the EU-3 failed and so did Pres. Bush by allowing them to negotiate with the Iranians. Dan's information is based on the analysis of former Mossad agent Rafi Eitan, who led the team that captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960 and who helped plan the Osirik attack that destroyed Iraq's nuclear dreams in 1981.
Eitan told me: "I am convinced that the Iranians already have at least one or two nuclear devices. They have been operating centrifuges for a number of years now, they have natural uranium, and who on earth believes the Iranians when they say that they have closed down one facility or another? You would have to be an idiot or terribly na ve to believe them."
Eitan says that this view was bolstered by conversations he held with various experts from abroad who came to the Herzliya Conference - that Iran already has a an atom bomb. What should concern not only Israel but Europe too, continues Eitan, is the fact that the Iranians have acquired cruise missiles with a 3,000-kilometer range. They tried to purchase nine missiles of this kind in Ukraine from the arsenal of the former Soviet Union, but Russia thwarted part of the deal and Iran received three or four such missiles.
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