UN Nuclear Chief: “Iran Has Never Been Closer to Achieving a Nuclear Bomb”
by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – The director general of the UN’s nuclear agency has reiterated that the brutal Islamic regime of Iran has “never been closer” to developing a nuclear weapon, an achievement that may be just “weeks” away, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The world’s biggest state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, Iran is ruled by an authoritarian hardline Islamic regime which brutalizes its own people and which has repeatedly called for the annihilation of Israel.
Western powers have spent years trying – by way of sticks and carrots, treaties and sanctions, to ensure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon. But the rogue regime has consistently defied all agreements, threats, and pleas, defiantly withholding information about its nuclear program, and rendering it difficult to assess just how far along it has advanced toward an atomic bomb.
In yet another attempt to assess the situation and supervise Tehran’s nuclear operations, Rafael Grossi, head of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), traveled to Iran last week. The regime reportedly had agreed to provide the IAEA with information and access to its nuclear sites.
Having met with Mohammad Eslami, director of Iran’s nuclear program, Grossi told reporters after his visit: “Iran has never been closer to achieving a nuclear bomb. It is estimated that it may be a matter of weeks and not months away if [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei chooses to go this way.”
In a statement to the Jerusalem Post, Steven Biegalski, the chair of the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program at Georgia Institute of Technology, said Iran has enriched the uranium required for a nuclear bomb to 60% purity – “far beyond” what is needed for an atomic weapon. “It is, of course, a huge concern,” Biegalski said. “They are clearly staging themselves to reach their goal in one or two weeks without having any significant international sanctions against them,” Biegalski noted.