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Iran Downplays Strikes on Israel While Edging Closer to The Bomb
A UN chief warned this week that Iran is one week from nuclear capability.
“Iran Needs ‘One Week’ To Build Nuclear Weapon, Official Claims,” revealed Brendan Cole for Newsweek on April 25, 2024.
“Iran has expanded its nuclear program, reducing the time it would need to build a nuclear bomb after the erosion of a 2015 international deal to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions,” explained Cole. “Tit-for-tat missile strikes between Israel and Iran have added urgency to the quest by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to uncover the nuclear intentions of Tehran, which it insists are peaceful.”
“The nuclear threats that loom over Iran and Israel,” fretted the Washington Post along similar lines this week.
This fresh round of hand-wringing over Iran’s potential nuclear capabilities follows an explicit recent warning by a UN nuclear chief inspector.
“UN nuclear chief: Iran ‘weeks, not months’ from enough uranium to make a bomb,” explained the Times of Israel staff nervously. “Head of International Atomic Energy Agency stresses that is not the same time frame as would be needed to make a device, but says Iranian activity ‘raises eyebrows’”