Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), stated in an interview that while Iran’s regime currently does not possess a nuclear weapon, it has enough enriched uranium to produce six or seven nuclear warheads.
On Saturday, April 5, Rafael Grossi spoke with an Argentine media outlet about the Iranian regime’s nuclear program and the new U.S. policies regarding it.
In the interview, Grossi emphasized that the Iranian regime currently has no nuclear weapons but has acquired the equipment and materials needed to build them. According to him, the amount of enriched uranium in Iran is sufficient to construct six or seven nuclear weapons.
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Grossi referred to ongoing correspondence between Tehran and Washington, saying that the United States has presented Iran with two choices: reaching an agreement on the nuclear program or facing airstrikes.
Grossi expressed his concern about the current situation. According to U.S. officials, the Iranian regime has two months to make a decision.
In a phone call between Grossi and the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister, it was agreed that Grossi would travel to Iran in the coming weeks.
Grossi stated that the main reason for his trip to Iran is to prevent a direct confrontation between the Iranian regime and the United States. He said Iran has agreed to clarify the disputed issues as soon as possible in hopes of avoiding “any destructive conflict.”
Contrary to the regime’s official position of not pursuing nuclear weapons, Ali Larijani, the former Speaker of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament), said last week: “If the United States makes a wrong move regarding Iran’s nuclear issue, it will force Iran to pursue nuclear weapons, because Iran must defend itself.”
Ali Larijani, who is a member of Iran’s Expediency Council and an advisor to the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said in a televised program, following discussion of the current situation and recent communications from Donald Trump: “The Supreme Leader’s fatwa (a legal ruling on a point of so called Islamic law) is that we will not pursue [nuclear] weapons. A fatwa is different from political instructions, and his letter [on this issue] has also been registered once at the United Nations. But when they apply pressure, then [building a nuclear bomb] will have a ‘secondary justification’.”
