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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Rather more than you I suspect because he has access to people that you don't.  |
He would only have access to info on a need-to-know basis. He wouldn't need to know about Iran. Any discussions on those matters would be done direct, not via the embassy.
Did he mention that there was info he was privy to that influenced his opinions? Or was he simply going along with the anti-Trump rhetoric?
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Iran has breached the limit on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium set under a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a watchdog has confirmed.
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If all they needed for reasonable use was within the limits of the deal, why the need to increase it?
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A stockpile of 1,050kg, however, could be further enriched later into enough material to build one bomb, according to the Arms Control Association.
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Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful, but experts say 20% enriched uranium is most of the way to weapons-grade uranium. That is because going from uranium's natural state of 0.7% concentration of U-235 to 20% takes approximately 90% of the total effort required to get to weapons-grade.
The Arak reactor is also a proliferation risk because if it is not redesigned it will produce spent fuel containing plutonium, which could be used for a nuclear bomb.
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Before July 2015, Iran had a large stockpile of enriched uranium and almost 20,000 centrifuges, enough to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the Obama administration.
US experts estimated then that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called "break-out time".
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