Scuttling Ahead

"If thousands of the more efficient machines are introduced, the time line for being able to produce a weapon's worth of fissile material will significantly shorten.
"This won't change the several months it would take to make actual weapons out of the fissile material or the two years or more that it would take to be able to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile, so there is no need to start beating the war drums. 
"But it will certainly escalate concerns."
Mark Fitzpatrick, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Well, there's a year's worth of understatement. A period of 'several months' doesn't sound dreadfully worrisome if you're a half-globe distant from the Middle East, as Mr. Fitzpatrick is, in Washington at the U.S. State Department. Americans in security intelligence and executive authority tend to be rather relaxed about the inevitability the on-track Iran nuclear program is heading toward.

They have the luxury of distance and distance buys time.

Israel's situation is to be more directly and horribly affected, as a near neighbour of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The classic canary-in-the-mine.

And while co-ordinated efforts like Stuxnet and strange explosions and the unfortunate and untimely death of Iranian nuclear experts have aided the issue in lagging the time element briefly, they hardly settle the argument. Iran's inexorable move toward nuclear weapons and its intransigence on the issue is clearly threatening.

Any 'red lines' that existed at any time have long since been passed. And while it's conceivable that the deterrent value, if it indeed occurred, of the Fordow installation having unfortunately imploded might be true, that is yet to be determined. Which uranium enrichment set-back that it represents may be an explanation for this latest announcement to the IAEA of increasing the pace of uranium enrichment.

Which, of course, Iran insists will be done merely to ensure sufficient reactor fuel is on hand for domestic reasons. The nefarious purpose of producing highly enriched uranium for fissile warhead cores is entirely a vicious figment of the typical Western mind whose compliance has been bought by the Zionist entity.

On the other hand, those new-generation IR2m "centrifuge machines" were not created on an overnight whim; they were long in the planning.

North Korea's steady advances are Iran's as well; the close collaboration between the two rogue states cannot be overemphasized, nor their belligerence and hatred toward the international community seeking to limit the damaging disequilibrium both are visiting on the international scene. 

Leaving Israel's Prime Minister to repeat ad infinitum: "The international community cannot allow Iran to arm itself with a nuclear weapon".

"While the world is discussing where and when the next meeting with Iran will be, Iran is rapidly advancing towards obtaining a nuclear bomb."