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Hitting Iran now could halt its nuclear plan

Tehran is exposed and may rush to get the bomb. The West should give it a short, sharp shock.

Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the
other day Iran was “dramatically” accelerating uranium enrichment to 60
per cent, a short hop away from the 90 per cent needed for weapons grade.
There was no civilian programme that could justify such a move.

Indeed, no other country has done so without in the end producing nuclear weapons. The
IAEA calculates that Iran already has enough 60 per cent purity stock to
upgrade into four nuclear weapons. The collapse of Iran’s proxies, the
flimsy nature of Russian support for the regime, the erosion of Iranian air
defence and the imminent arrival in the White House of Donald Trump point
to the possibility of a galloping nuclearisation by the regime and a
pre-emptive strike by Israel.

 Times 10th Dec 2024 https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/hitting-iran-nuclear-plan-tehran-exposed-78qhk5jzf

December 13, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized