Iran provokes international community and threatens: We can produce a nuclear bomb
Iran has begun to provoke the international community, boasting of its ability to make a nuclear bomb. Kamal Kharazi, Senior Advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said: “Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but Iran has made no decision to build one”, he said, a few days after US President Joe Biden ended a four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, vowing to prevent Iran from “acquiring a nuclear weapon”.
Nuclear weapon
Arab Weekly Reports: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi’s comments were a rare indication that Iran might seek to acquire nuclear weapons. The newspaper has long denied this, but Kharazi’s statements reveal Iran’s intentions. “In a few days, we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we could easily produce 90% of enriched uranium, adding that Iran has the technical means to produce a bomb but there was no decision by Iran to build one”, he said. Iran is already enriching up to 60%, well above the 3.67% ceiling under the 2015 Tehran Nuclear Agreement with world powers, but 90% enriched uranium is suitable for a nuclear bomb.
It continued: In 2018, former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned the nuclear deal, under which Iran reduced its uranium enrichment work, a potential route for nuclear weapons, in exchange for easing economic sanctions. In response to Washington’s withdrawal and the reintroduction of harsh sanctions, Tehran began violating the nuclear restrictions of the agreement. Western pressure could push Tehran to seek nuclear weapons, something Khamenei banned from developing in a fatwa or religious decree in the early 2000s.
Iranian Terms
According to the newspaper, Iran says: “It said that its violations of the international agreement could be reversed if the United States lifted sanctions and returned to the deal, and the outlines of the deal were agreed upon. The deal was essentially revived in March after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and the Biden administration in Vienna”. The talks then broke down due, among other things, to Tehran’s demand that Washington should provide guarantees that no American president would abandon the deal, as Trump had done, but Biden cannot promise that because the nuclear deal is a non-binding political understanding and not a legally binding treaty.
