Blinken: Iran is a few weeks away from building a nuclear arsenal – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news

In a speech to the US House of Representatives on Thursday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken acknowledged that Iran continues to develop its nuclear program despite US pressure.

“While Iran previously needed more than a year to acquire the materials needed to build a nuclear weapon, this is the time since withdrawing from the Comprehensive Joint Action Plan,” he said, without referring to Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the UN Security Council. (Burjam) has been reduced to a few weeks.

“We still believe that a return to adherence to the nuclear deal (with Iran) is the best way to address the challenge of Tehran’s nuclear program and to ensure that the country does not acquire weapons,” Blinken said earlier in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Tuesday. It is nuclear.

He acknowledged that the decision to leave Borjam and put maximum pressure on Iran did not work.

The remarks come as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly reaffirmed Iran’s adherence to its nuclear commitments under the IAEA Board, and it was the Washington administration that unilaterally withdrew from the agreement and imposed numerous sanctions. Trampled on.

The current US administration is now practically following in the footsteps of the previous administration by gesturing and claiming to return to the agreement. Negotiations between Iran and the P5 + 1 have almost stalled in the past few weeks due to US extravagance and new demands, and the outcome of the revival of the nuclear deal has been ambiguous.

The officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have always emphasized that an agreement can be reached if the United States does not exaggerate and Washington adheres to returning to its obligations under the nuclear deal.