Iran has the ability to build a nuclear bomb but has not decided whether it is going to, an adviser said on Sunday. Kamal Kharrazi is a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
“In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium … Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one,” Kamal Kharrazi said.
The 2015 US-Iran nuclear deal curbed Iran’s uranium enrichment network, a potential path to nuclear weapons, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. However, in 2018, US President Donald Trump ditched the nuclear deal with world powers.
About a year into Trump’s “maximum pressure” policy on Iran, Tehran started violating the pact’s nuclear restrictions.
From the very beginning, Iran has defended itself against claims that it is seeking nuclear weapons, saying that it is refining uranium only for civilian energy uses and has said its breaches of the international deal are reversible if the United States lifts sanctions and rejoins the agreement.
Indirect talks between Iran and President Joe Biden’s administration, which aim to bring both Washington and Tehran back into compliance with the nuclear pact, have been delayed since March.
Kharrazi said Tehran would never negotiate over its missile programme and regional policy, as demanded by the West and its allies in the Middle East.
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