A version of this Editor's Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI's weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor's Notes as they're released, join the ToI Community here. How close was Iran to the bomb, and how far has Israel now pushed it off? Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN's nuclear weapons watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned a few weeks ago that 'they're not far off,' and also cautioned that Tehran's obstruction of his agency's inspectors has meant that the IAEA has not been able to keep track of recent progress by the regime on the various aspects of its program.