Iran admits its nuclear programme is capable of building a bomb - BICOM

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Iran has moved 90 per cent of this stock to its site in Esfahan, where it maintains a capability to make enriched uranium metal.
55% : Looking ahead: In a perceived response to President Biden's visit to the region, Iran is hosting Russian President Putin and Turkish President Erdogan this week.
54% : Iran has the technological ability to move from 60 per cent uranium enrichment to 90 per cent, which Israeli analysts suggest would take around two months.
52% :US perspective: On the plane from Israel to Saudi Arabia on Friday, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told journalists the US is still waiting on Iran to respond to its offer of "compliance-for-compliance" for returning to the JCPOA nuclear deal.
51% : According to the latest reporting from the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran had a stockpile of 43.1 kilograms of 60 per cent enriched uranium.
45% : Kharazi, who is also the head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, further claimed that Iran has conducted training exercises to strike deep into Israel, were the latter to "target our sensitive facilities".
44% : "The IDF has continued to prepare energetically for an attack on Iran and must prepare for any development and any scenario.
40% : It is still unclear, how advanced Iran has moved on to the weaponisation stage of building a nuclear bomb, with some estimates suggesting this could take another year and half.
37% : He also said that Iran would never negotiate over its missile programme and regional policy.
36% : However, they did not reach agreement over the need to present Iran with a credible military threat for diplomacy to work in curtailing Iran's nuclear programme.
25% : Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one."
6% : Sullivan clarified: "We're also not waiting to continue to impose economic pressure on Iran, further economic pressure on Iran is to include two rounds of sanctions designations that we have done to enforce the sanctions and crack down on smuggling and deprive Iran of sources of revenue."

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