Save Print This Post Send to Kindle Iran Says It Could Enrich Uranium to 20% Within Two Days

On the occasion of its National Nuclear Day, Iran boasted that it could enrich uranium to 20% in just two days’ time, if the United States would withdraw from the deal, the Associated Press reported Monday. The threat is an indication that the 2015 nuclear deal left much of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear infrastructure intact.

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Last week Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, senior fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Council on Foreign Relations respectively, wrote in The Washington Post that Iran is exploiting the deal to modernize its nuclear infrastructure with advanced centrifuges in ways that would make detection of its nuclear weapons work much more challenging.

The deal satisfied two conditions that Iran needed to advance its nuclear weapons work: it lifted sanctions and it is also “permissive enough to allow the development of these machines.”

The nuclear deal, Gerecht and Takeyh wrote, gives Iran “at least eight years to fully develop a new generation of centrifuges,” to replace the thousands of first generation centrifuges it currently has installed.

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