Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem January 26, 2014. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An international deal capping Iran's nuclear work set the programme back by just six weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of using the hiatus to hone technologies with bomb-making potential.
Iran this month began implementing the interim nuclear accord it clinched with world powers in Geneva in November, and which Netanyahu has condemned as a "historic mistake" for easing sanctions on Israel's arch-foe while letting it retain the infrastructure to make fissile materials.
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