Op-ed by Iran Task Force Co-Chairmen and JINSA CEO Referenced in the Washington Post
Iran: Is it too late
By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
October 29, 2013
President Obama, we can only hope, reads USA Today. Since most information at odds with his convictions apparently is not related by aides but picked up by perusing the morning paper, that is where the president might learn that his Iran approach is at odds with reality.
Last week USA Today reported that Iran can break out, that is achieve nuclear capacity in less than a month. That means prompt and immediate destruction of their existing program is required:
Iran: Is it too late
By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
October 29, 2013
President Obama, we can only hope, reads USA Today. Since most information at odds with his convictions apparently is not related by aides but picked up by perusing the morning paper, that is where the president might learn that his Iran approach is at odds with reality.
Last week USA Today reported that Iran can break out, that is achieve nuclear capacity in less than a month. That means prompt and immediate destruction of their existing program is required:
David Albright, president of the [I]nstitute [for Science and International Security] and a former inspector for the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, said the estimate means that Iran would have to eliminate more than half of its 19,000 centrifuges to extend the time it would take to build a bomb to six months. The Obama administration has said Iran is probably a year away from having enough enriched uranium to make a bomb.
This admonition was echoed yesterday by Olli Heinonen, former IAEA deputy director and now a senior fellow at the Kennedy school. In a press conference call he explained: “With a current inventory, with a current 20% enriched uranium, uranium hexafluoride which Iran has, assuming that they don’t need to do any major changes to their process — for the enrichment process, which I believe is true — they can turn it into one equivalent of nuclear weapon feed material in one month time. That’s a fact.” With certain adjustments Heinonen thinks the time period can be reduced to two weeks.