The new nuclear talks with Iran starting on Monday in Vienna are not a good star. According to experts, Iran has once again significantly shortened the path to the atomic bomb. According to a November 19 report by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington think tank, three weeks would be enough for Iran to produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build an atomic bomb.
This was reported by the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” a few days ago. The reason for the shortened so-called “breakout” duration lies in the greatly increased Iranian Reserves of medium (20 percent) and high (60 percent) enriched uranium. This fissile material can be enriched relatively quickly to 90 percent and thus brought into a weapon-grade form.
The institute had the “breakout” duration in the case of the Iran estimated much longer in February, at a good three months. In the scenario at that time, the Tehran regime would have only been able to fall back on supplies of weakly enriched uranium in the event of a possible sprint towards the atomic bomb, which is no longer necessary today.
Of the Iran further stresses that he does not want to build an atom bomb. But with the technical prerequisite of producing such a system very quickly in the event of a crisis, it has now become a powerful instrument of power. He wants about his nuclear program Iran also do not negotiate in Vienna. It is only a question of whether the US will return to the 2015 nuclear deal and that the sanctions against Tehran will be lifted, they say in unison from the hardliner group Iranian Management team.
Of the Iran also refuses to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA criticized Tehran in two reports leaked in mid-November. On the one hand, she complains about Iran Attitude in the dispute over the review of several suspicious plants. The Viennese supervisory authority is demanding explanations of three facilities in which atomic inspectors have discovered traces of nuclear substances, and a fourth, which has not yet been allowed to be inspected. Iran has refused to provide the necessary transparency for more than two years. With this in mind, IAEA boss Rafael Grossi complained.
Former IAEA chief inspector Olli Heinonen recently told an Israeli private broadcaster that Iran could already be described as a nuclear threshold power. This worries the Israel very much. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that his country was “very concerned” that the world powers would sanction the sanctions in return for insufficient caps on its nuclear program Iran could pick up.
According to media reports, the Israeli military is already preparing, single-handedly if necessary Iran to prevent the construction of the atomic bomb. That could exacerbate the situation in the already highly explosive Middle East region. Israel has already destroyed nuclear facilities under construction in Iraq and Syria in the past. In addition, Israel is allegedly behind attacks Iranian Nuclear Physicists and Cyber Attacks on Nuclear Sites. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf emirates also feel their way through it Iran threatened.
Should the Iran actually build an atomic bomb, it could spark a nuclear arms race in the region. According to experts, Israel has several hundred nuclear warheads. Should actually be an armed conflict between the Iran and Israel break out, the consequences would be incalculable.
