Israeli Military Intelligence: Hizbullah Hasn”t Given up Mughniyeh Vengeance Plans
Hizbullah has not given up plans to avenge the assassination of military commander Imad Mughniyeh in a car bomb attack in Damascus last year, the head of Israel”s military intelligence claimed on Wednesday.
"Most probably they will harm us abroad," the director of Military Intelligence Major-General Amos Yadlin told parliament”s foreign affairs and defense committee.
The Shiite group accused Israel of killing Mughniyeh in February 2008 but the Jewish state denied any role.
Turning to Iran, Yadlin said that Tehran will have the capacity to build a nuclear bomb within a year but is not rushing into production.
"The Iranian strategy is not to get a nuclear bomb as soon as they can so as not to give the world a reason to act against them," he said.
MPs quoted Yadlin as telling the committee that Iran is trying to rapidly acquire the capacity to build a bomb but is "enriching uranium in a rate meant to make it very hard to incriminate them."
About Hamas, he said the Islamic movement was preparing for another round of fighting.
"Hamas did not give up on its ideology of “resistance.” It is preparing itself for another round of fighting and will therefore never sign an agreement to stop weapons smuggling. For Hamas, smuggling is the resistance”s main option," he said.