IAEA Warns Iran Nuclear Risk Has Increased

Key points

• The possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon is now higher than it was before the United States and Israel first attacked the country in February, the International Atomic Energy Agency has concluded in a report.
• The conclusion suggests the war has so far resulted in the opposite of what President Trump set out to do, namely, prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
• Bloomberg cited the report, which has restricted access, saying that in it, the IAEA had warned its member states that Iran already has a large stockpile of enriched uranium that is close to weapon-grade, and it can continue the enrichment to achieve weapon-grade nuclear material.
• The agency pointed out that this stockpile was subject to regular inspections by the IAEA, but Iran suspended these inspections following Israel’s and the U.S. strikes last June.
• As a result, the IAEA “can’t draw any conclusion regarding this nuclear material,”...