Tehran interim Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami. Press TV
Senior Cleric: Iran Has Knowledge To Build A Nuclear Bomb -- The Guardian
The Islamic republic has reached the expertise to enrich uranium not just to the 5% and 20% levels required for civilian uses but to higher levels required for a bomb, says Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami
An official site belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has quoted a senior conservative cleric as saying that Iran has attained the knowledge to build a nuclear bomb but doesn’t want to use it.
The IRGC site of Kurdistan province today quoted Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a leading cleric who often leads Friday prayers in Tehran, as telling a group of IRGC commanders in Iran’s Kurdistan province that Iran had the expertise to enrich uranium not just to the 5% and 20% levels required for civilian uses but to higher levels required for a bomb. “[We] can enrich uranium at 5% or 20%, as well as 40% to 50%, and even 90%,” he was quoted as saying. But he said the Islamic republic believed that the building of a bomb is religiously forbidden.
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My Comment: After this Iranian admission the question needs to be asked .... what will be the White House's response to this threat? My prediction .... they will ignore it and hope that the P5 + 1 nuclear talks will produce something in the months ahead .... and if not .... they will do everything in their power to kick the can down the road for the next administration to face and handle.