Analysis: Stakes rise as Iran can fuel 'several' atom bombs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% :Iranian state television separately quoted Mohammad Eslami, the head of the country's civilian nuclear program, as saying Tehran would welcome a visit by Grossi to the country.
49% : DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build "several" nuclear weapons if it chooses, the United Nations' top nuclear official is now warning.
48% : The Argentine diplomat then referred to Benjamin Netanyahu's famous 2012 speech to the United Nations, in which the Israeli prime minister held up a placard of a cartoon-style bomb with a burning wick and drew a red line on it to urge the world to not allow Tehran's program to highly enrich uranium.
46% : Today, North Korea has ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads that are capable of reaching the U.S.Iranian diplomats for years have pointed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's preachings as a binding fatwa, or religious edict, that Iran wouldn't seek an atomic bomb.
45% : But he still urged more diplomacy as Tehran still would need to design and test any possible nuclear weapon.
43% : Iran's mission to the U.N., responding to questions about Grossi's remarks, insisted in comments to The Associated Press on Thursday that Tehran "is prepared to stick to its commitments within the framework of the (deal) provided the other parties do the same.""The Iranian nuclear program has never been about making nuclear weapons and enriching has nothing to do with deviating from it," the mission said, despite Iran accelerating its enrichment after the deal's collapse.
41% :Such fighter jets would provide a key air defense for Iran, particularly as its nuclear sites could increasingly be eyed.
40% : Another part of the Americans' exasperation -- and increasingly of the Europeans as well -- comes from Iran arming Russia with the bomb-carrying drones that repeatedly have targeted power plants and civilian targets across Ukraine.
39% : For months, nonproliferation experts have suggested Iran had enough uranium enriched up to 60% to build at least one nuclear weapon -- though Tehran long has insisted its program is for peaceful purposes.
39% : At least 527 people have been killed and over 19,500 arrested amid the unrest, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group monitoring the protests.
39% : It remains unclear what Tehran, which has a strained history with Moscow, expects to get for supplying Russia with arms.
38% : But diplomatic efforts aimed at again limiting its atomic program seem more unlikely than ever before as Tehran arms Russia in its war on Ukraine and as unrest shakes the Islamic Republic.
36% : Talks between Iran and the West ended in August with a "final text" of a roadmap on restoring the 2015 deal that Iran until today hasn't accepted.
33% : Israel, which has carried out strikes to halt nuclear programs in Iraq and Syria, has warned it will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear bomb.
29% : Even at the height of previous tensions between the West and Iran under hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran never enriched uranium as high as it does now.
13% : Price and others in President Joe Biden's administration say any future talks with Iran remain off the table as Tehran cracks down on the months-long protests after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman detained in September by the country's morality police.

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