Iran capable of making nuclear weapon declares adviser to supreme leader

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : It released satellite imagery purporting to show Iranian Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 drones in flight and on show at the airfield with a Russian transport plane nearby.
52% : Radio Farda described the comments made by Kharrazi, head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations (SCFR), as a rare mention that Tehran could have an interest in such arms.
46% : Analysts will also be studying the visit for any signs that, as has been claimed by the White House, Iran is preparing to provide Russia with several hundred drones -- some of which would be combat-capable -- for use in its war in Ukraine.
45% : Iran has long denied it has ambitions to acquire or develop nuclear weapons, saying its nuclear development programme is strictly for civilian purposes.
42% : Iran is capable of making a nuclear weapon but a decision on whether to do so has not yet been made, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on July 17.
39% : To back up its claims, the Biden administration has released what it says is intelligence showing how Russian officials recently visited an airfield in Iran to see unmanned, weaponised aerial vehicles.
37% : Kamal Kharrazi's comments to Al-Jazeera TV on July 17 came as US President Joe Biden pledged on a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia that Washington would prevent Iran from "acquiring a nuclear weapon" and ahead of an expected visit to Tehran this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
27% : Biden on his Middle East tour said he would only authorise military action against Iran to stop it obtaining a nuclear weapon as a last resort.
25% : Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one," Kharrazi said.
12% : Under the 2015 nuclear deal, or JCPOA -- which has been increasingly ignored by Iran since former US president Donald Trump unilaterally walked out of the multilateral accord four years ago and reimposed an Iran policy based on heavy sanctions -- Iran is not supposed to enrich uranium beyond 3.67%.

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