Uranium, missiles or weaponization: Where does Iran go from here? - analysis

Iran is continuing to enrich uranium, which means that it is likely moving beyond the 84% mark – and could soon reach up to 90%. Iran Watch, a website published by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, noted last year that “Iran’s centrifuges have not produced uranium usually defined as weapon-grade, which is uranium enriched to 90% in the isotope U-235. All of Iran’s production has been at lower grades.” So, where does Tehran go from here?

Over the weekend, CIA director William Burns told CBS News in an exclusive interview that, “to the best of our knowledge, we don’t believe that the Supreme Leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge that they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003… the other two legs of the stool, meaning enrichment programs, they’ve obviously advanced very far.” He also mentioned the Iranian missile program and Iran nearing the “threshold” of becoming a nuclear state.

A report over the weekend noted that CIA director William Burns told CBS News in an exclusive interview that “to the best of our knowledge, we don't believe that the [Iran] Supreme Leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judge that they suspended or stopped at the end of 2003…the other two legs of the stool, meaning enrichment programs, they've obviously advanced very far." He also mentioned the Iranian missile program and Iran nearing the “threshold” of becoming a nuclear state.  

The report said Iran “has not resumed weaponization.” READ MORE