He sees Donald Trump’s termination of the nuclear agreement in 2018 as a major mistake and warns about Iran’s capabilities.
According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Iran is close to “achieving the ability to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon.” Because the nuclear agreement with Iran has been terminated, Iran is “probably only a week or two away from doing so,” Blinken said at the Aspen Security Forum security conference in Colorado. Although Iran has not yet produced a nuclear weapon, the US is monitoring developments there very closely.
“When you put those two things together – the fissile material and an explosive device – you have a nuclear weapon,” Blinken continued. In recent weeks and months we have seen that Iran is making progress with its nuclear program. The country is making progress in terms of its capacity to produce fissile material. Now we are watching what it could do in terms of weapons.
Termination of the nuclear agreement “one of the biggest mistakes”
Ideally, the US and its partners should try to get the situation under control through diplomatic means, said Blinken. But the termination of the nuclear agreement has made this difficult. For him, this termination is “one of the biggest mistakes we have made in recent years”.
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In the 2015 Vienna nuclear agreement, Iran committed to severely restricting its nuclear program. In May 2018, then US President Donald Trump terminated the pact, which was intended to prevent the construction of Iranian nuclear bombs. He also tightened sanctions. In return, Tehran greatly expanded its uranium enrichment and restricted controls by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
New Iranian President: Defense doctrine does not include nuclear weapons
Last week, the newly elected Iranian President Massoud Peseschkian asserted that his country was not building nuclear bombs. “I would like to stress that Iran’s defense doctrine does not include nuclear weapons,” the president wrote when presenting his foreign policy course in the “Tehran Times”. The USA should accept this reality and refrain from further insinuations.
Source: Stern
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