Iran could produce an atomic bomb, but is not interested in doing so, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammed Eslami, said Monday, APA reports citing Fars news agency.
Eslami did not elaborate on Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and appeared to be reiterating comments made last month by Kamal Kharazi, a top aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
“As Mr. Kharazi mentioned, Iran has the technical ability to build an atomic bomb, but such a program is not on the agenda,” Eslami said, according to the report.
Kharazi said mid-July that Iran could “easily produce 90 percent enriched uranium,” adding: “It is no secret that we have the technical capabilities to manufacture a nuclear bomb, but we have no decision to do so.”
Eslami’s remarks Monday come after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday threatened to turn New York into “a heap of rubble from hell” through nuclear warheads it could mount on its long-range missiles.
“Iran can immediately return to Emad project and build an atomic bomb if Natanz facilities are attacked,” the statement read, in an apparent reference to an Iranian project to produce long-range missiles.
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