PNN – 2 American officials said in an interview with Reuters news agency: Washington still believes that despite the recent developments in the Middle East, Iran has not decided to build nuclear weapons.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, these statements made by a senior official of the Joe Biden administration and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) of the United States, are in addition to the public statements made earlier this week by William Burns, the head of the CIA.
William Burns said earlier this week that there is no evidence that Iran intends to change its nuclear program towards military programs.
Referring to the statements of Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, the spokesman of the National Intelligence Office told Reuters: Our assessment is that Iran has not yet decided to continue its nuclear military program, which it has suspended since 2003.
The intelligence assessment could help explain the US opposition to any attack by the Zionist regime on Iran’s nuclear facilities in retaliation for Tehran’s ballistic missile attack on the occupied territories last week.
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US President Joe Biden previously announced that his administration does not support any attempt to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities by Israel, but did not explain why his administration reached this conclusion. Biden’s comments had caused severe criticism from Republicans, including the former president of this country, Donald Trump.
Reuters claimed that US officials acknowledge that any effort to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program may only delay the country’s efforts to build such weapons and could even strengthen Tehran’s determination to do so.
This is despite the fact that there is no evidence that the Iranian government has tried to design or build nuclear weapons in the past years, and all of Iran’s nuclear activities are under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
An unnamed senior Biden administration official told Reuters: We are watching this space carefully.
In the past days, the Israeli army has inflicted heavy losses on Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the most powerful member of the Iranian-backed network known as the Axis of Resistance. Among these losses was the assassination of Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut.
Reuters has claimed that some experts say that weakening Iran’s key ally in Lebanon may prompt Tehran to resume its efforts to build a nuclear bomb in order to protect itself.
The report further claimed that Iran is currently enriching uranium to 60% purity at its 2 sites and theoretically has the materials needed to build approximately four nuclear bombs by International Atomic Energy Agency standards.