The US blow will pour a cup of bitterness? Iran will be determined to create an atomic bomb

The US intelligence community believes that Iran will probably decide to get an atomic bomb if the United States attacks the Uranium Enriching Center in Fordo or Israel will kill the highest spiritual and political leader of Iran Ajatollah Ali Chameneia, “New York Times wrote.

According to American intelligence agencies “Iran has not yet decided to produce a nuclear bomb, although he has already accumulated substantial reserves of the enriched uranium necessary for this purpose,” NYT said on Thursday.

The New York daily noted that “the question whether Iran has decided to complete the work on the atomic bomb is irrelevant to many + Jastrzębi + in the USA and Iran, claiming that Tehran is close to much to become an existential threat to Israel.”

US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will make the decision about an possible attack on Iran within two weeks. CIA boss John Ratcliffe said “Iran has everything to get a nuclear weapon.” “I only need the decision of the Supreme Leader. The production of nuclear weapons would take Iranians for several weeks,” he added. Such a temporary horizon – noted “NYT” – is convergent with the assessment of Mosad.

The newspaper also informed about various assessments among the American authorities. “Some officials believe that Israeli estimates are reliable, but others indicate that the assessment of the American intelligence environment does not change and Iran needs to produce weapons from several months to even a year,” we read.

At the same time, “many representatives of intelligence services believe that the reason why Iran has accumulated so much uranium is the desire to have the ability to quickly produce a bomb.”

“NYT” also emphasized that in the US intelligence environment there are suspicions that Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been calling for Iran for many years, presents “colored estimates to get the support of the United States in a military campaign against (Tehran).”

The daily reminded that Chamenei issued Fatwa (religious decree) in 2003, which prohibits the production of nuclear weapons. “At the moment she is still in force” – noted the US intelligence representative cited by “NYT”. (PAP)

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