Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak , Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says any decision by the Tel Aviv regime to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities remains "very far away."

"We don't have a decision to go forward with these things. We don't have a decision or a date for taking such a decision. This whole thing is very far away," AFP quoted Barak as telling Israel's army radio on Wednesday.

Barak said Israel did not believe that Iran had yet made a decision to move to actual production of a nuclear warhead.

Former director of Israel's Mossad spy agency Meir Dagan claimed in a televised interview on November 29, 2011, that Iran, and the Hezbollah and Hamas resistance movements would respond with massive rocket attacks on Israel in case of a military confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

He also said Syria would also join Iran in that scenario.

Dagan added that such a war would take a heavy toll in terms of lost lives and would paralyze life in Israel.

Despite the widely publicized claims by the US, Israel and some of their European allies that Iran's nuclear program may include a military aspect, Iran steadfastly insists on its civilian nature, arguing that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

This is while the Israeli regime is widely known to possess over 200 nuclear warheads. Furthermore, Tel Aviv refuses to inspections of its nuclear facilities and refuses to sign any international nuclear agreements.

The IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence indicating a diversion in Tehran's civilian nuclear program.