Iran has “crossed the technological threshold” in its pursuit of nuclear weapons, said Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, Israeli head of military intelligence.

Warning that Iran has all the technology it needs to build atomic bombs, Yadlin said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, “Arrival at military nuclear capability is a matter of strategy. Iran is accumulating hundreds of kilograms of enriched uranium at a low level and hopes to utilize the dialogue with the West in order to gain time, which is required in order to achieve the capability to manufacture a nuclear bomb.”

The United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency reported in February that it had been wrong in earlier assessments, and now believes that Iran has enough enriched uranium to make a bomb.

An average modern nuclear bomb detonated in a major city would kill around 1 million people.

On Sunday, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that Iran has test-fired a new air-to-surface missile. It claimed the plane-to-ship missile has a range of 70 miles.

“Now these jet fighters have acquired a new capability in confronting threats,” Fars said.

Iran is a bellicose nation driven by an apocalyptic ideology. Its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, believes he is in power in order to set off World War iii and, literally, the Apocalypse and the return of the Islamic mahdi. Allowing Iran to attain nuclear capability will have devastating consequences. For more on this subject, read “Ahmadinejad’s Apocalyptic Ambitions.”