CIA Chief: Iran Could Enrich Uranium to Weapons-grade within Weeks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Burns said Iran obviously advanced its enrichment programs very far over the past couple of years.
52% : IAEA said it was discussing the recent results of verification activities with Iran.
49% : Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Mohammad Eslami said IAEA inspectors had been in Tehran since Tuesday and had started negotiations, visits and checks to resolve "ambiguities created by an inspector."
48% : "We don't see evidence that Iran made a decision to resume that weaponization program," Burns affirmed, adding that the other dimensions of this challenge are growing at a worrisome pace too.
48% : Iran has been enriching uranium to up to 60 percent purity since April 2021.
46% : Last Friday, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesperson for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said Tehran "has the right to enrich uranium at any rate it wants."
45% : CIA director William Burns warned on Sunday that Iran could enrich uranium within weeks to 90 percent, the quantity it needs for a nuclear weapon.
44% : The agency has asked Iran for an explanation," one of the diplomats told Reuters.
40% :Iran then tried to respond to international concerns, when it announced on Wednesday the arrival of an IAEA team to the Fordow facility to remove ambiguities about the 84 percent enriched uranium, in tacit confirmation of the validity of what the agency announced.
36% : However, the CIA director said Washington does not believe that the Supreme Leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge that they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003.
33% : Tehran said the project was stopped in 2003.
29% :Early this month, the UN nuclear watchdog criticised Iran for making an undeclared change to the interconnection between the two clusters of advanced machines enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, at its Fordow plant.

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