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Assassination of the father of the Iranian bomb

The father of the nuclear program was eliminated, but how close is Iran to the bomb at all?

Tehran denies that it is interested in developing nuclear weapons, but in the West and Israel, Fahrizadeh has been singled out as being responsible for the military aspect of the plan.

Since Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iran has increased uranium enrichment but experts disagree on the amount of time it will take to develop a bomb - if it chooses to do so

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Sunday, 29 November 2020, 12:24

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In the video: Demonstrations across Iran following the assassination of senior nuclear scientist (Photo: Reuters)

The nuclear deal between Iran and the superpowers has eroded and efforts to revive it face a new challenge following the assassination of senior scientist Muhsin Fahrizadeh.

The same agreement had one goal: to extend Tehran's "break-in time" to create enough fissile material to create a bomb, if you decide to do so, from at least two to three months a year.

Iran claims it has never tried to develop nuclear weapons and will never do so, and that its nuclear program is purely civilian.

However, Fahrizadeh, who is considered the father of its military nuclear program according to the West, headed the secret project "Amad" which was stopped in 2003.

In Israel, it was said that he continued to work on secret projects related to the military aspect of the program, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned his name when the nuclear archive was unveiled two and a half years ago.

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Satellite image of the Netanz nuclear facility last month (Photo: Reuters)

Tehran began violating the agreements last year, step by step, in response to President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2018 nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions on it.

Violations have shortened the breakout time, but according to reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which oversees the agreement, Iran is not progressing as quickly as it can in the nuclear program.

European countries are trying to save the agreement, forcing Iran to abide by it even with tightening U.S. sanctions, in hopes of changing U.S. policy with the entry of Joe Biden into the White House on Jan. 20. Biden was Barack Obama's deputy when the nuclear deal was signed in 2015.

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Iran's violations

Iran has violated most of the restrictions imposed on it in the agreement, but it continues to cooperate with the IAEA and gives the agency's inspectors access to its nuclear sites, in one of the strictest control regimes ever imposed. The

agreement limits the amount of enriched uranium Iran can hold to 202.8 Kg, a fraction of the eight tons that were in his possession before him.

Last year, Iran crossed the threshold, and according to an IAEA report from this month, it has already accumulated 2.4 tons of enriched uranium.

Tehran also surpassed the level of enriched uranium allowed, from 3.67% set by the agreement to 4.5%. Enriched before the agreement and well below the 90% needed for nuclear weapons development.In

addition, Iran was allowed to produce uranium from about 5,000 first-generation centrifuges installed in the Natanz underground facility, which has room for 50,000 centrifuges.It can operate a small number of centrifuges More advanced above the ground, without preserving the uranium enriched in them.

Iran had about 19,000 centrifuges before the agreement. Since last year, it has begun moving some of the advanced centrifuges underground, and the latest IAEA report states it has started operating them.

Fahrizadeh's coffin was carried to a temple in the city of Mashhad, today (Photo: Reuters)

Experts disagree about Iran's break - in time.

Those who are stricter, think that the starting point of a year is too conservative.

David Albright, a former UN arms inspector with hawkish views on Iran, believes it is a total of three and a half months, although for that Iran will have to use about a thousand advanced centrifuges it has removed under the agreement. The

next theoretical step, if Iran accumulates enough fissile material, is You will need to assemble a bomb and one small enough for it to be launched on a ballistic missile, it is not clear how long it will take, but the accumulation of fissile material is considered the biggest obstacle to nuclear weapons production.

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