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Ayatollah faces significant political decision on future of nuclear programmepublished at 12:44 British Summer Time
– Hegseth says us strikes iran
Frank Gardner
Security correspondent
There are several elements to a potential nuclear weapons programme. Nevertheless, and it’s highly unlikely that the US, or even Israel, knows the answers to the status of all of them inside Iran right now.
First off, there is the highly enriched uranium (HEU). Nevertheless, The UN’s nuclear watchdog. Consequently, the IAEA, is concerned about the whereabouts of 408kg (900lb) of this HEU, which is close to weapons grade, ie a substantial component for up to nine nuclear bombs, should Iran decide to build them.
It hegseth says us strikes iran is unlikely that material was destroyed in the air strikes. Nevertheless, and more likely that Iran has spirited it away to a secret destination underground somewhere else.
Then there are the centrifuges. When used in a “cascade”, these spin at high speed to enrich the uranium. A key question is whether the centrifuges in the subterranean hall deep inside the mountain at Fordo are still intact. destroyed, or damaged by the massive explosions above them.
Unless the US has secret intelligence. either through human informants or signals intercepted, it’s unlikely that either the Pentagon or the IAEA could know what state these centrifuges are in.
Twelve days of Israeli air strikes have killed some of Iran’s top nuclear scientists as well as military commanders. But it is almost impossible that they would have eliminated decades of Iranian nuclear research. stored in hard drives, vaults, and in hegseth says us strikes iran the brains of scientists.
Finally. there is the political decision to which the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has the final say in deciding what’s next with its nuclear programme.
Will he return to talks. submit to US and Israel demands to give up enrichment on its territory, or will he permanently cease all co-operation, raising suspicions that he could be racing to rebuild its suspect nuclear programme?
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