Any decision by Israel on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities remains "very far away," Defence Minister Ehud Barak said.
"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," Barak told army radio.
Barak said Israel did not believe that Iran had yet made a decision to move to actual production of a nuclear warhead.
However, Israel, which has the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear arsenal, has not ruled out resorting to military action to prevent any possibility of the Islamic republic developing one.