JINSA Iran Task Force Panel Featured in the Washington Free Beacon, 6/10/2013
Election Smokescreen
By Adam Kredo
June 10, 2013 5:53 pm
A prominent group of former senior State Department officials warned Monday that Iran is coming dangerously close to achieving a nuclear weapon as negotiations with Western nations come to a standstill ahead of Tehran’s June 14 presidential elections.
Election Smokescreen
By Adam Kredo
June 10, 2013 5:53 pm
A prominent group of former senior State Department officials warned Monday that Iran is coming dangerously close to achieving a nuclear weapon as negotiations with Western nations come to a standstill ahead of Tehran’s June 14 presidential elections.
By August, when Iran’s next president is set to assume office, it could take Tehran just nine days to enrich enough uranium needed to fuel a nuclear weapon, former Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman said during a discussion at the National Press Club about Iran’s upcoming election and the impact on its nuclear ambitions.
Edelman and other former top officials warned that Iran’s elections are unlikely to alter its nuclear calculus.
“We’re getting to the zone where talking about a breakout capability is not a flight of fancy but rapidly approaching,” said Edelman, who also served as a former under secretary of defense for policy in the Bush administration.