Iran says 'capable of building nuclear bomb', Al Jazeera reports

Khamenei adviser says Tehran has technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision to build one as uranium enrichment continues to unprecedented levels
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Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told Al Jazeera's Arabic service on Sunday.
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  • "In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium ... Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one," Kamal Kharrazi said.
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    In 2018, former U.S. President Donald Trump ditched Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, under which Iran curbed its uranium enrichment work, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons, in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
    About a year into Trump's "maximum pressure" policy on Iran, Tehran started violating the pact's nuclear restrictions.
    Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons, saying it is refining uranium only for civilian energy uses and has said its breaches of the international deal are reversible if the United States lifts sanctions and rejoins the agreement.
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    Uranium enrichment centrifuges at the nuclear facility in Natanz, Iran
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    Indirect talks between Iran and President Joe Biden's administration, which aim to bring both Washington and Tehran back into compliance with the nuclear pact, have stalled since March.
    Kharrazi said Tehran would never negotiate over its missile program and regional policy, as demanded by the West and its allies in the Middle East.
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