Iran’s nuclear program was postponed about two years after US-oriented US attacks, the Department of Defense (Pentagon), which cites evaluations from United States Information Services, said on Wednesday.
“We have attracted your program in at least one to two years, that’s what the Defense Department’s intelligence community is evaluating,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell stressed.
Parnell stressed that the delay caused to the Iranian nuclear program is “probably closer to two years.”
Donald Trump had already estimated in late June that the Iranian nuclear program had been eliminated and delayed for decades, while ‘media’, who cited a confidential report from an American information agency, estimated the delay in just a few months.
Pentagon information was advanced on the same day as the Iranian President, Massoud Pezeshkian, gave final approval to the legislation that suspends cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA), following a previous vote in Parliament.
The law promulgated on Wednesday aims to “guarantee the full support for the rights of Iran” and, in particular, the enrichment of uranium “under the treaty of nuclear non-proliferation (TNP), according to the Iranian media.
The UN considered this Iran’s decision worrying, while Washington considered unacceptable.
On June 25, one day after the ceasefire imposed by Donald Trump after a 12-day war between Iran and Israel, the Iranian parliament approved by a major majority a bill that suspends cooperation with the UN agency responsible for nuclear security.
The decision of Iran has also irritated Israel, an enemy since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and Israelite Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called on the world to “use all means at his disposal to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions.”
He appealed to Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the three European countries that signed the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement with China and the United States to “reinstate all sanctions against Iran” and do it “now.”
This agreement became void and without effect after unilateral removal of the United States in 2018, and Tehran began to break free from his obligations. Berlin ranked Iran’s decision as a “disastrous sign”.
Saying that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon, Israel launched a massive attack on the country on June 13, reaching hundreds of nuclear and military facilities.
Iran denies atomic bomb
Iran, which denies looking for an atomic bomb but defends its right to enrich uranium for civil purposes, retaliated with missile and drone attacks against Israel.
The Israelite attacks made at least 935 dead in Iran, according to an official report. In Israel, 28 people were killed by Iranian missiles, according to Israeli authorities.
The issue of uranium enrichment is at the center of differences between Iran and the United States, which began indirect negotiations in April, but were interrupted by war.
The Iranian authorities vehemently denounce the silence of the AIEA in the face of Israeli and Americans bombings against Iranian nuclear facilities.
Tehor also criticized the agency by a resolution adopted on June 12, the eve of the first Israelite attacks, accusing the breach of its obligations in the nuclear area.
Iran also rejected an AIEA guardian request, Rafael Grossi, to visit his bombarded nuclear facilities in order to determine what happened to his ‘stock’ in a close level of the design limit for an atomic bomb.
Grossi estimated that Iran would have a technical capacity to resume uranium enrichment in “a few months”.
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