After a top Iranian official alleges Tehran already has the ability to build an atomic bomb, analysts say that “technologically speaking, they are very, very close.”
Iran can produce a nuclear weapon at will, former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi announced on Sunday.
Hours later, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a top adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, went further, saying that if Tehran moved to build an atomic bomb, then “no one could stop us … and they know that.”
“I believe what Kharrazi is saying is accurate,” said Eyal Pinko, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University expert on Israeli national security. “It’s a matter of making the decision to go for the bomb and a few weeks to carry it out,” he added.