Some officials have maintained that the country's Supreme Leader Khamenei has no interest in producing a nuclear weapon, despite the ability to make weapons-grade material.
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a hearing on China's role in the Middle East.potential to make a nuclear weapon"Iran has the technical ability to make an atomic bomb, but there is no such plan on the agenda," Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran’s civilian nuclear agency, said in a report Monday.
Eslami also referred to comments made by Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in mid-July told Al Jazeera that the country was able to enrich uranium"up to 60%" but could"easily produce 90% enriched uranium," the level at which it isEslami’s agency later walked back the comment, saying he"misunderstood and misjudged," taken by some as a sign that Iran’s government didn’t want him to be so specific with his language.
This file photo released Nov. 5, 2019, by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, shows centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. Some experts believe that Eslami did not misspeak and that recent statements from Iranian officials serve to test the waters on the international response to the possibility of making a final dash to obtain a nuclear weapon.
"Obviously, the repeated Iranian references to the possibility of producing nuclear weapons reflects an intention to actually produce them," Yossi Kupperwasser, former brigadier general and head of the IDF Intelligence Assessment Division and a senior researcher at the IDSF, told Fox News Digital.
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