The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which is one of the most highly esteemed think tank institutions in Britain, claimed that Iran needs a few years in order to produce nuclear weapons.
The IISS noted in its report that Iran’s temporary limitations in its nuclear activities were accepted due to political reasons and that for Iran to reach the capacity to produce nuclear weapons will take five years at least, and 10-15 years at most.
London based IISS publishes two reports every year; “The Military Balance” and “Strategic Survey,” and it made some predictions about Iran considering Iran’s nuclear, chemical, biological and long-ranged missile studies.
If Tehran, which had to suspend its activities for producing nuclear weapons due to western pressure, has restarted its uranium enrichment program and again it will be subject to new embargos.
The IISS report emphasized that Iranian administration defends that it wants to use its nuclear capacity for energy production for peaceful purposes and warned: “However, the same technology can be used to produce A-bombs at the same time.”
It is stated in the report that Iran has also unexplained nuclear activities dating back 20 years ago and evaluated:
“These activities are sufficient to explain the pressure of the US and the European Union (EU) over Iran about its nuclear activities.
According to the report the two obstacles preventing Iran from producing a nuclear weapon are the production of fuel and functional warheads.
The specialists who wrote and prepared the report noted that the nuclear diplomatic tension between Iran and the Western world is inevitable and they emphasized the developments that Iran experienced in its long ranged missile program.
The IISS report notes that Iran focused on Sahab-3 missiles, which are a version of Northern Korean originated long range missiles. “These missiles can hit Israel, a part of Turkey and the south of Russia.”
As these developments are being experienced, the Chinese Administration supports Iran having peaceful nuclear technology and they want the problem to be solved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rather that by the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
Russia, the biggest supporter of Iran’s nuclear activities, had made a similar announcement the other day.
Tehran had announced on August 8 that it had restarted its nuclear activities that it had suspended following negotiations with EU countries; EU countries on the other hand had carried the issue to the IAEA.
The IAEA will discuss the recent activities of Iran this month.
The Iranian administration’s insistence on nuclear energy despite its rich natural resources is evaluated by some environments as “nuclear weapon production ambition.”
