These statements were made by a senior official in the US President’s administration Joe Biden and a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to join William Burns The director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who said earlier this week that Washington saw no evidence that the Iranian leader had reversed his decision in 2003 to suspend the nuclear weapons program.
A spokesman for the director’s office said US National Intelligence: “We believe that Iranian guide Ali Khamenei “He has not made a decision to resume the nuclear weapons program that Iran suspended in 2003.”
This intelligence assessment could help explain US opposition to any Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear program in response to Tehran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel Last week.
Biden said after that attack that he would not support an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites, but he did not explain the reason for this decision.
His statements sparked strong criticism from Republicans, including former President Donald Trump.
US officials have repeatedly said it was an attempt to destroy Iranian nuclear weapons program It will only delay Tehran’s efforts to develop a nuclear bomb and may even increase Tehran’s determination to build one.
“We are all monitoring this matter very closely,” the Biden administration official said.
Weakening Iran’s main ally
In recent weeks, the Israeli military has dealt devastating blows to Hezbollah, the most powerful group in the Iran-backed network known as the Axis of Resistance.
Among the losses was the killing of the group’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah In an Israeli air strike last month.
Some experts speculate that Iran may resume efforts to obtain a nuclear bomb to protect itself after weakening its main ally.
Iran is currently working on enriching uranium to a purity of up to 60 percent, which is close to 90 percent required to manufacture weapons, in two sites, and in theory it has enough material enriched to this degree, which if enriched further would be enough to produce approximately four bombs. , according to standards International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations.
