<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1654106977023,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017f-e2f4-de00-a7ff-e7fff8030000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1654106977023,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017f-e2f4-de00-a7ff-e7fff8030000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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The Institute for Science and International Security released a new report on Wednesday that centered on its conclusion that Iran’s breakout timeline for creating such a weapon is now at zero. Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build such a weapon, and if the country wanted to develop a second, “it could do so within a few weeks with only a few of its advanced centrifuge cascades,” the report states.
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The country could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a second nuclear explosive within a month if it started the process, while it would only take an extra two weeks to accumulate enough for a third. And it would take less than three months for the nation to develop four nuclear weapons.
Earlier this week, the United Nations’s International Atomic Energy Agency similarly said that Iran has roughly the right amount of material for a nuclear weapon, according to the Wall Street Journal. The organization also said that Iran had unexplained nuclear material, and Iranian officials haven’t provided answers.
“As Iran has reached a zero breakout timeline, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has issued a harsh judgment that Iran is violating its safeguards agreement under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, judged as having undeclared nuclear materials and activities, related to past and possibly on-going nuclear weapons efforts,” the report continued. “Iran moreover shows no sign of being willing to rectify these violations or provide assurance to the IAEA that its nuclear weapons program has ended. In fact, Iran’s answers to the IAEA are not only technically noncredible and lack support, but they are also haughty.”
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All of this is occurring as the U.S. has sought, unsuccessfully so far, to reenter the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which intended to cap Iran’s nuclear activity in exchange for a rollback of international sanctions. The Trump administration withdrew from it in 2018.
The Biden administration had considered removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps‘s terrorist designation, though the administration ultimately told Israeli leaders that the president decided against that action. Republicans were critical of the nuclear agreement during the Obama administration and have remained opposed to Biden’s efforts to rejoin it.
