Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Tuesday that Iran is one to two years away from obtaining a nuclear weapon, contrasting a remark made by US State Secretary Antony Blinken, warning that the Islamic Republic could develop a bomb in a “matter of weeks.”
Speaking to Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, according to the Times of Israel (ToI), Steinitz stipulated that “If they do everything to break out, it will be half a year; in terms of nuclear weapons, they are a year or two away.”
On the backdrop of reported intentions of the Biden administration to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, the Israeli minister lauded former President Donald Trump’s for withdrawing from the international agreement in 2018, as well as instating his “maximum pressure” policy instead.
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{Matzav.com}
