Iran nuclear concerns: Israel warns Tehran is only '10 weeks away' from acquiring weapons-grade materials

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Iran was allowed to continue to pursue its nuclear program for civilian purposes, with strict limits on how much uranium it could enrich, the purity it could enrich it to and other measures.
46% : Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz reportedly has warned U.N. Security Council diplomats this week that Iran is "only around 10 weeks away from acquiring weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon."
46% : Iran has said the talks - which have been on pause since June - won't restart until president-elect Ebrahim Raisi forms a new government later in August, the Jerusalem Post reports.
46% : In exchange, Iran received relief from sanctions that those powers had imposed, including on its exports of oil and access to the global banking system.
44% : Iran did not immediately respond to Gantz's comments.
42% : The newspaper also says in recent weeks, top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Naftali Bennett have expressed warnings that Iran is advancing its nuclear program during a halt in negotiations on returning to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal.
41% : In 2015, Iran had signed an agreement with the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain that was intended to set limits on Tehran's nuclear program in order to block it from building a nuclear weapon -- something it insists it doesn't want to do.
40% : "Iran has violated all of the guidelines set in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and is only around 10 weeks away from acquiring weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon," Gantz was quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying Wednesday.
38% : "The world needs to take action against Iran now."
36% : Israel, the U.S. and the U.K. have blamed Iran for carrying out the attack.
35% : Gantz made the comment during a presentation aimed at having the Council sanction Iran for a series of recent maritime attacks, including one last week on the oil tanker Mercer Street that killed two people, according to the Jerusalem Post.
34% : "We are at a point where we need to take military action against Iran," Gantz said.
31% : Separately, Gantz told the news website Ynet on Thursday that Israel is prepared to strike Iran following the fatal drone strike on the Mercer Street oil tanker.
26% : US, UK AND ISRAEL BLAME IRAN FOR ATTACK ON ISRAELI-MANAGED TANKER
22% : But in 2018, then-President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. unilaterally out of the deal, criticizing clauses that ease restrictions on Iran in stages -- and also the fact that eventually the deal would expire and Iran would be allowed to do whatever it wanted with its nuclear technology.

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