Indeed they are.

Via Times of Israel:

“Iran is laughing all the way to the bomb,” Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon told a conference at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday.

While Tehran’s officials negotiate with the West to buy time, its centrifuges keep spinning, he said, adding that in the last three months Iran enriched 750 kg of uranium to 3.5%, and another 36 kg to 20% purity. Iran, he said, has more than 6,000 kg of low enriched uranium — enough, potentially, for five bombs.

Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies conference, Ya’alon added that Iran “is showing no sign whatsoever that it feels threatened, despite economic difficulties.” Sanctions, he said, have yet to “bring the regime to the dilemma: the bomb or survival.”

Ya’alon was speaking after several recently retired high-ranking security officials had weighed in at the conference on the question of whether an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities is either a grave mistake or the only option left for the Jewish state.

As a former chief of staff, Ya’alon said he knew “better than anyone” that military force could only be used as a last resort. He stressed that the Iranian threat was not only directed against Israel. “We’re the little Satan,” he said. “America is the big Satan.”

The regime in Iran had “hegemonic aspirations” in the region, he said, accompanied by “a messianic, apocalyptic religious belief. . . We have to prevent this non-conventional regime from attaining non-conventional capabilities.”

HT: Brian B.