Iran would need only “half a day” to enrich enough uranium to 90 percent of its purity to create nuclear warheads, according to a top Iranian official.
Tehran has continued to update and expand its nuclear progamme following the collapse of an international nuclear agreement signed in 2015.
The Islamic Republic is believed to have increasingly reduced the time it would require to build a nuclear weapon, fuelling concerns of catastrophic escalation of tensions in the Middle East.
Former military commander Javad Karimi-Ghodousi has now claimed it would take Iranian scientists only “half a day or let’s say, one week” to produce enough uranium to create a nuclear warhead.
Writing on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Karimi-Ghodousi noted that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, is “aware” of Tehran’s capabilities.
