Tag: nuclear proliferation

Trump’s claim that Iran could build nuclear weapons in seven years

The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website May 8, 2018:

President Trump is vastly over simplifying what Iran can do seven years after the nuclear deal was implemented. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

“In seven years, that deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons. That’s not acceptable. Seven years is tomorrow.”
— President Trump, discussing the Iran nuclear deal in a White House news conference, April 30, 2018

Trump has never liked the Iran nuclear deal and may decide to withdraw the United States from further participation. The president says he will announce his decision Tuesday.

Whatever he decides, Trump said, the international agreement would expire in seven years anyway, and Iran would be able to build nuclear weapons. Continue reading “Trump’s claim that Iran could build nuclear weapons in seven years”

How killing the nuclear deal could make it easier for Iran to pursue the bomb in secret

The following article by Joby Warrick was posted on the Washington Post website May 8, 2018:

The Post’s Alan Sipress and Karen DeYoung explain how President Trump’s decision might affect an already tense Middle East. (Sarah Parnass, Joyce Lee/The Washington Post)

VIENNA — In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking eye over Tehran’s most sensitive factories and research labs. But perhaps not for much longer.

Every day, workers arrive at the United Nations nuclear agency here to monitor live video from inside Iran’s once-secret uranium enrichment plants, part of an unbroken stream of data delivered by cameras and other remote sensors installed as part of the 2015 accord. Each week, scientists in lab coats analyze dust samples collected from across Iran, looking for minute particles that could reveal possible cheating. Continue reading “How killing the nuclear deal could make it easier for Iran to pursue the bomb in secret”