Iran could still build pieces for nuclear weapon in a month, expert warns

Despite US and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Tehran may still be able to produce parts for a nuclear weapon within one month, a former deputy director general of the UN nuclear watchdog warned.

"Possibility for ca 1000 centrifuge enrichment facility with a small uranium metal laboratory able to make pieces for the first nuclear weapon in one month exists," Olli Heinonen said in a post on X.

“Not the time for wishful thinking,” he wrote. “The threat remains.”