Iran is technically capable of building a nuclear bomb but has not decided whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Qatar’s Al Jazeera television on Sunday. Kamal Harazi spoke a day after US President Joe Biden wrapped up a four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, pledging to stop Iran from “getting a nuclear weapon”. Harazi’s comments were a rare suggestion that Iran may have an interest in nuclear weapons, which it has long denied it is pursuing. “Within a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium. Harrazi said. In this photo released by the official website of Iran’s supreme leader’s office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a televised New Year address, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 21, 2022. Iran is technically capable of nuclear bomb but has not decided whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Qatar’s Al Jazeera television on Sunday. (Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran via AP) UN: Iran REMOVES 27 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS AT NUCLEAR SITES Iran already enriches up to 60 percent, well above the 3.67 percent cap under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Uranium enriched to 90% is suitable for a nuclear bomb. In 2018, former US President Donald Trump abandoned the nuclear deal, under which Iran curbed its uranium enrichment work, a potential path to nuclear weapons, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. In response to Washington’s withdrawal and reimposition of tough sanctions, Tehran began violating the pact’s nuclear restrictions. Last year, Iran’s intelligence minister said Western pressure could prompt Tehran to seek nuclear weapons, the development of which Khamenei banned in a fatwa, or religious edict, in the early 2000s. Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. In 2018, former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned the nuclear deal, under which Iran limited its uranium enrichment work, a possible path to nuclear weapons, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Iran says it refines uranium only for civilian energy uses and has said its violations of the international agreement are reversible if the United States lifts sanctions and rejoins the accord. The general framework of a renewed deal was essentially agreed in March after 11 months of indirect talks between Tehran and the Biden administration in Vienna. But the talks have since stalled over obstacles, including Tehran’s demand that Washington give guarantees that no US president will abandon the deal, as Trump has done. Biden can’t promise that because the nuclear deal is a non-binding political understanding, not a legally binding treaty. “The United States has not provided guarantees to preserve the nuclear deal, and that destroys the possibility of any deal,” Harazi said. WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 16: President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on July 16, 2022, in Washington, DC. The talks then collapsed over obstacles, including Tehran’s demand that Washington must provide guarantees that no US president would abandon the deal, as Trump has done. Biden can’t promise that because the nuclear deal is a non-binding political understanding, not a legally binding treaty. (Photo by Tassos Katopodis/Getty Images) WHITE HOUSE ACCUSES IRAN OF DONATING ‘SEVERAL HUNDREDS’ OF DRONES TO RUSSIA Israel, which Iran does not recognize, has threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Kharrazi said Iran would never negotiate on its ballistic missile program and regional policy, as demanded by the West and its allies in the Middle East. “Any targeting of our security by neighboring countries will be met with an immediate response from those countries and Israel.”
