French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Iran's nuclear program is moving along a potentially irreversible path, approaching the point of no return.
Macron said this while speaking to French ambassadors in Paris.
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— Iran's accelerating nuclear program is bringing us closer to a tipping point, the French president said.
According to Bloomberg, Iran has enough material to fuel several warheads if the Iranian government makes a political decision to develop nuclear weapons.
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Last month, Iran announced plans to increase its nuclear fuel production capacity in response to criticism from the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over Tehran's failure to address uranium particles found at undeclared sites.
Iran says its nuclear programme is for energy purposes.
The IAEA is expected to issue a fuller report as part of a broader Western push to possibly reimpose or lift UN sanctions on Iran before they expire in October 2025. The diplomatic mechanism was part of the now-defunct nuclear deal, which was scrapped in 2018 by then-US President Donald Trump, and which curbed Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
— The Iranian issue is certainly one of the main issues on which we will resume dialogue with the new American administration, — Macron said, referring to Trump's return to the White House later this month.
As Bloomberg notes, Iran has thousands of centrifuges that spin at high speed to separate uranium isotopes. These machines typically produce low-level reactor fuel, but they can be programmed to produce higher concentrations of uranium, suitable for weapons of mass destruction.
Referring to Iran's support for Russia in the war against Ukraine, Macron called Iran the biggest strategic and security challenge to Europe and its allies.
