Iran very close to the construction of nuclear weapons says Israel while the US disagrees
When the Israel launched a series of blows against Iran Last week, he also issued a series of warnings about nuclear program of the country, suggesting that the Tehran approached very quickly to getting nuclear weapons and that blows were necessary to prevent this result.
However, the Estimates of US intelligence services had come to a different conclusion. Not only Iran did not actively seek the construction of a nuclear weapon, but abstained up to three years of being able to produce and deliver such a weapon to the purpose of choosing theaccording to people who know the situation, CNN reports.
Another senior US official also said that Iran is « as close as you can reach before construction (a nuclear weapon). If Iran wanted one, it has all the things it needs. «
Now, after five days of air strikes, US intelligence officials believe that Israel so far may have suspended Iran’s nuclear program only a few months. Even while Israel has caused significant damage to Iran’s premises in Natanz, where centrifuges are necessary for uranium enrichment, a second, heavy fortified location of enrichment in Fordu has remained virtually untouched.
Israel is not able to destroy Fordou without specific US weapons and air support, they say defense experts. « Israel may be hovering over these nuclear facilities, make them non -functional, but if it really wants to destroy them it is either with one stroke of the US Either with a deal, « said Brett McGurk, a former top diplomat in the Middle East under the Governments of Trump and Biden.
According to CNN, this raises a Basic Dilemma for Trump Governmentwhich is trying to avoid involvement in a « expensive, complex war in the Middle East ».
Although US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not want to involve the US in Israel’s efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, the government recognizes that the The only way Israel can neutralize Iran’s nuclear program is with US military aid – Sources said in CNN – and specifically, US bombs capable of destroying underground installations and B-2 bombers that carry them.
US Army and US Secret Services officials have long stated that the US and Israel often disagree with how to interpret information about Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump’s National Information Director, Tulsi Gabbard, testified in March that the US intelligence community « continues to estimate that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon and that the Supreme Leader Hameni has not approved the 2003 nuclear weapons program. »
Israel has not yet harmed seriously Perhaps the most impenetrable fortress of Iran’s nuclear program: Fordou, enrichment installation buried deeply below a mountain.
« The issue comes back to a question: Fordou, Fordou, Fordou, » McGurk told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday.
This is something that the United States can neutralize. This is something that the Israelis will find it very difficult to do. If this is over with Fordu intact, you could actually have a worse problem, « McGurk said. « You could actually have Iran more willing to go on a nuclear weapon and have this infrastructure intact. »
Trump and his government have argued that a diplomatic solution could still bear fruit. But Iran has told Qatar and Oman that she will not get involved while being attacked by Israel, as a regional diplomat told CNN.
Source: CNN
