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Iran can produce material for nuclear bomb in weeks, US says
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https://www.dw.com/en/iran-can-produce-material-for-nuclear-bomb-in-weeks-us-says/a-69718716
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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Iran will be capable of producing the necessary material for use in a nuclear weapon within “one or two weeks,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan, meanwhile, said the United States has noted “an uptick of public commentary from Iranian officials musing about that possibility” since the April attacks and counterattacks between Israel and Iran and its allies.
“Instead of being at least a year away from having breakout capacity to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon, they’re probably one or two weeks away from doing that,” Blinken said, adding that “where we are now is not a good place.”
He blamed the pace of this progress on the US withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and global powers known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA.)
The IAEA has said Iran is the only non-nuclear weapons state to enrich uranium to the high level of 60% — just short of weapons-grade.
Iranian Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri told CNN earlier this week that Iran remained committed to the JCPOA, the official names for the 2015 nuclear deal.
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