Iran enriched uranium to 84 percent -- but can it make a nuclear bomb?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : But the Ukraine war and Iran's supply of drones to Russia may prompt some elements to give Tehran a special "thank you."
53% : But officials also acknowledge that their level of confidence in knowing what Iran is doing on weapon design is significantly less than its enrichment activities.
52% : The IAEA, headquartered in Vienna, said Sunday that it is "discussing with Iran the results of recent Agency verification activities."
49% : But the Bloomberg report did not reveal how much uranium enriched to this extent Iran has produced.
49% : This latest revelation comes just a few days after news emerged that Iran had altered the piping joining two groups of centrifuges in its Fordow plant, a change that would allow faster enrichment to higher levels.
49% : So, the new level that Iran reportedly has reached is well beyond most people's "red line" of concern.
45% : A new additional concern for officials is that the Russian military may slip Iran a critical mass or two of 90 percent enriched uranium, as China did to jump-start Pakistan's program in the early 1980s.
44% : Iran appears to have made a new and worrying advance in its nuclear program.
42% : And if Iran were to settle for a bomb delivered by an aircraft, rather than on a long-range missile, the sophistication of design needed could be less.
35% : It doesn't necessarily mean that Iran is close to actually making a nuclear bomb.
35% : Officials say that Iran still seems to be challenged when it comes to making the gaseous uranium hexafluoride used in centrifuges into solid metal and casting it into hemispheres that, when placed together as a sphere, could be the explosive core of a nuclear bomb.
33% : Of course, if Iran were to test a device in a remote desert area, it could be much cruder than a deliverable bomb.

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