The White House fears that Iran will produce its first nuclear warhead in the coming weeks.
This is what White House spokeswoman Jen Saki said last night (Tuesday) in a briefing for reporters.
"Secretary of State Belinko said at the briefing that Tehran has managed to reduce the development time of enough fissile material for the production of the first nuclear weapons from almost a year to at least a month," Saki said.
"The issue certainly worries us."
The remarks were made after yesterday's publication in "Israel Today" according to which two sources in the Israeli political system said that now it seems that the chances of a nuclear agreement are low and even nil.
Those same sources stressed that there may still be a surprising reversal, which will eventually lead to the signing of the nuclear agreement, but "the possibility that the parties will sign an agreement in the foreseeable future is receding at an exponential rate," according to one source.
Until about a month ago, the prevailing assessment in Israel's political and security system was that the United States and Iran would sign a nuclear agreement. It gave up on Iran on many issues, leading to the resignation of two senior members of the US negotiating team.
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