Experts discuss Iran's nuclear program

A large article on Iran's nuclear program was published in this week's issue of Russian magazine The New Times. The authors of the article asked several experts from Norway, France and Israel to comment on the current situation surrounding the problem and its predicted further development.

"The question is not whether Iran is going to have a bomb, but when it's going to have it," French expert Bruno Tertre says. According to him, the Israeli sources proving that bomb will be ready by 2012 are more reliable then the US ones, according to which no bomb will be produced until 2014. This means that Iran will become a nuclear country if no one stops it, the expert explains.

Pavel Bayev, professor of Oslo University, still doesn't believe that Israel is going to launch a massive military attack on Iran. "There are still other measures that can be taken, so Israel has no need to bombard Iran," the expert says.

Israeli expert Mennahem Yakub admits that cyber attacks are useful to damage nuclear laboratories, while they are still being constructed, but says that during the final stages a military attack is necessary to prevent production. This means that Israeli forces may attack the underground nuclear laboratory in Fordu.