{"id":18517,"date":"2026-05-05T15:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=18517"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:55:12","slug":"us-failed-to-set-back-irans-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/us-failed-to-set-back-irans-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"US failed to set back Iran\u2019s nuclear progam \u2013 Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"

US failed to set back Iran\u2019s nuclear progam \u2013 Reuters <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Tehran remains about a year from building a nuclear bomb if it wishes to do so, with its enriched uranium stockpile still out of reach, the news agency says<\/strong><\/p>\n

US-Israeli strikes on Iran have failed to push back the timeline for Tehran potentially acquiring a nuclear weapon, Reuters<\/a> reported on Monday, citing intelligence sources. Tehran could still reportedly produce a bomb in roughly a year \u2013 the same estimate as after last June\u2019s attacks on\u00a0 its key nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n

While US officials have insisted that their key objective in the war has been to dismantle Iran\u2019s nuclear program, the timeline for a nuclear breakout remains \u201cbroadly unchanged,\u201d the report says. It added that derailing Tehran\u2019s nuclear effort would require destroying or removing Iran\u2019s remaining stockpile of highly enriched uranium.<\/p>\n

“Iran still possesses all of its nuclear material, as far as we know,\u201d Eric Brewer, a former senior US intelligence analyst, told Reuters. \u201cThat material is probably located in deeply buried underground sites where US munitions can\u2019t penetrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been unable to verify the whereabouts of some 440 kg of uranium enriched to 60% \u2013 enough, if further enriched, for ten bombs. About half is believed to be in an underground tunnel complex at the Isfahan Nuclear Research Center, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Last June, powerful US strikes hit nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan, with US intelligence estimating that the nuclear breakout timeline was put back to about nine months to a year, Reuters sources said. Around the same time, a New York Times report said, citing a classified assessment, that US strikes had set Iran\u2019s program back by only \u201ca few months.\u201d<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump at the time dismissed the allegation as \u201cfake news,\u201d saying that \u201cmonumental damage was done to all nuclear sites in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran has consistently denied ever seeking nuclear weapons and rejected demands to surrender its enriched uranium stockpile. Last year, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi stated that \u201cwe do not have any\u00a0 indication that there is a systemic program in Iran to manufacture a nuclear waepons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this, US and Israeli officials have for years sounded the alarm about Iran\u2019s nuclear aspirations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been issuing warnings since at least 1992, and at the 2012 UN General Assembly, he famously brandished a cartoon bomb diagram with a red line drawn near the 90% enrichment threshold.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy: RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US failed to set back Iran\u2019s nuclear progam \u2013 Reuters Tehran remains about a year from building a nuclear bomb if it wishes to do so, with its enriched uranium stockpile still out of reach, the news agency says US-Israeli strikes on Iran have failed to push back the timeline for Tehran potentially acquiring a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[3831,3833],"class_list":["post-18517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-iran-irgc","tag-nuclear-progam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18519,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions\/18519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}