Iran's Progress Towards Nuclear Weapons
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Iran's nuclear program advancements prompt international concern. The 2015 deal collapse led to uranium enrichment violations, raising doubts about Iran's nuclear intentions and capabilities. Iran denies having a nuclear weapons program, but has breached all the key restrictions of the 2015 deal. It is now enriching uranium to up to 60% purity and has enough material for two nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) can no longer fully monitor Iran's production and inventory of centrifuges. The question of weaponization and how long it would take Iran to produce the rest of a nuclear weapon remains uncertain. Estimates vary between months and about a year. Iran had a coordinated nuclear weapons program that it halted in 2003, but there are concerns about the correctness and completeness of Iran's safeguards declarations. There are no concrete indications of a secret enrichment site. Iran's "breakout time" to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear bomb is close to zero, likely a matter of weeks or days.

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