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Israel has made repeated accusations about Iran having Nuclear capabilities... All which are false.

But the Fox has nuclear weapons and likes to keep this nice and quite.

Israel

Israel is a country which unofficially possesses nuclear weapons. The Israeli leadership itself does not confirm but does not refute reports of the existence of nuclear weapons on the country's territory.

Israel has been accused of secretly buying and stealing nuclear materials in other countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, and the FRG. Thus, in the United States in 1986, the disappearance of more than 100 kilograms of enriched uranium was discovered at one of the plants in the state of Pennsylvania, presumably for Israel's benefit. Tel Aviv acknowledged that it had illegally imported critrons, an important element in creating contemporary models of nuclear weapons, from the United States in the early 1980's. Reserves of uranium in Israel are estimated to be sufficient for its own needs and even for export for roughly 200 years. Uranium compounds can be produced at three plants for producing phosphoric acid as a byproduct to the extent of about 100 tonnes a year. In order to enrich uranium, back in 1974 the Israelis patented a method of laser enrichment, but in 1978 they developed an even more economic method of splitting uranium isotopes based on the difference in their magnetic properties. Israel also participated in the "enrichment studies" using the aerodynamic nozzle method conducted in the Republic of South Africa.

Iran
Iran does not have nuclear weapons (NW). Convincing signs of the existence in the country of a coordinated integrated military nuclear program have not been detected at this point. The present condition of industrial potential is such that without outside help, the IRI [Islamic Republic of Iran] is unable to organize production of weapons-grade nuclear materials. Iran ratified the NPT in 1970, and since February 1992 has allowed the IAEA to inspect any of its nuclear facilities. Not one IAEA inspection has revealed Tehran's violations of the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Until 1979 Iran was implementing a program to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes which envisioned the construction of 23 NPP's. These days it is implementing a more moderate program which employs the following bodies: