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Iran Nuclear Bomb: How close is Iran to having a nuclear bomb?

November 27, 2012 · 0 Comments
Iran Nuclear Bomb: How close is Iran to having a nuclear bomb?

How close is Iran to having a nuclear bomb? Over the last decade Americans have been told Iran is just years away from having a Nuclear Bomb. Now that that those years have turned into the present, the question is do they now have it?
The United States, Israel and the United Nations have all vowed to prevent Iran from acquiring the technology needed to build the weapon. Iran has managed to continue developing their Uranium enrichment program despite increasingly tough economic sanctions and cyberwarfare to slow its progress from the West.
On Sept. 16, 2012, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NBC’s “Meet The Press”: “They are very close, they are six months away from being about 90 percent of having the enriched uranium for an atom bomb.”

How close is Iran to having a nuclear bomb?

The NYTimes reported that Intelligence officials from several countries believe that over the recent weeks Iran has virtually completed an underground nuclear enrichment plant. racing ahead despite international pressure and heavy economic sanctions in what experts say may be an effort to give it leverage in any negotiations with the United States and its allies.
The Associated Press noted that according to a diagram they have obtained Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
The Washington Post reported that “The latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency suggests that Iran already has more than enough uranium enriched to 20 percent that could converted into weapons-grade (90 percent) uranium for at least one nuclear weapon.”
Currently the U.S. Senate is working on building upon sanctions against Iran as part of an annual defense policy bill.
The bill which was proposed by Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and Republican Mark Kirk have crafted new sanctions that would punish foreign banks that handle transactions for a broad sector of industries, including shipping, ports, ship building and more types of energy.

Following Netenyahu’s comments to “Meet the Press” about drawing the red line, do you feel as though war in the Middle East is imminent? If so please share your thoughts on how the United States should respond.
Tehran has said its nuclear program is strictly for civilian purposes.