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Still time for peaceful resolution on Iran’s nuclear program

Iran “more than two years away from a nuclear weapon”A new report suggests there is still time for a peaceful resolution of the Iranian nuclear impasse  guardian.co.uk, Julian Borger, 4 Feb 2010, The International Institute for Strategic Studies has just brought out what it calls its “net assessment” of “Iran’s Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Capabilities” – a sober and informed guess on what Tehran’s WMD capability might be.The main findings are on the nuclear side, as the report deems claims about covert biological or chemical weapons work to be unverifiable and “may have been exaggerated”. As for nukes, there is a huge amount of useful background, but the attention-grabbing bit concerns the various break-out scenarios Iran might follow if it chose to make nuclear weapons………

the IISS’s somewhat encouraging conclusion is:

At present…the likelihood that any dash by Iran for a bomb would be detected before it assembled a single weapon, much less the small arsenal that would be needed to make break-out worth the risk, allows time for a negotiated solution, should Iran’s leaders decide to seek one

Iran “more than two years away from a nuclear weapon” | World news | guardian.co.uk

February 5, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Iran, politics international