Jacob Nagel
Ynet News, June 19, 2024
“If, … Iran also moves enough weapons-grade enriched uranium to a secret underground site, with a small number of advanced centrifuges, Israel and the U.S. would find it very difficult to act militarily to stop Iran from becoming nuclear.”
Israel continues the war in Gaza and Lebanon to dismantle and eliminate Hamas’ military, governmental, and organizational capabilities, kill its leaders, bring back the hostages, and confront Hezbollah to allow the evacuated citizens to return home. At the same time, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei continues his ultimate strategy to achieve an atomic weapon of mass destruction.
Unfortunately, many in Israel, the West, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are falling again and again into the clerical regime’s sophisticated trap. The Israeli leadership, hopefully together with the U.S. (but it will probably happen only after elections in November) should make a substantial switch in their working priorities to prevent Iran from reaching its goal.
For more than two decades, Iran has continued its efforts to enhance its nuclear weapons capability –mainly by enriching uranium – causing Israel and the world to concentrate on the fissile material. The International Atomic Energy Agency recently confirmed that Iran has a huge stockpile of uranium enriched to 60%, as well as more enriched to 20%, and the IAEA board of governors adopted the E3 (France, Germany, U.K.) proposed resolution to censure Iran for the violations and lack of cooperation with the agency. The Biden administration tried to block it, but joined the resolution when it understood its efforts to block it had failed.
Tehran has enough enriched uranium to create weapons-grade material for seven nuclear weapons in about two weeks to a month, according to experts’ analyses. But we all must realize that Iran’s decision not to enrich uranium now to 90% is meaningless. The 20% enriched uranium is more than 90% of the effort required to make weapons-grade uranium, and 60% enrichment is 98% of the needed time. This is why Iran decided to stop before 90% until after it finished all the other parts needed to build a nuclear device.
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