Middle East Focus: Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Does She or Doesn’t She?...........

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Iran and Nuclear Weapons: Does She or Doesn’t She?...........

“Iran has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for 1-2 nuclear arms but it would not make sense for it to cross the bomb-making threshold with only this amount, a former top UN nuclear official has been quoted as saying. In unusual public remarks about Iran’s disputed nuclear programme Olli Heinonen, the former chief of UN nuclear inspections worldwide, told France’s Le Monde newspaper that Iran’s uranium reserve still represented a “threat.” Until he stepped down earlier this month for personal reasons, Heinonen was deputy director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency and head of its nuclear safeguards department, which verifies that countries’ nuclear programmes are not being diverted for military use……..”
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