Iran could make the nuclear material for a device in "about 12 days" if it wanted to, a top Pentagon official has said.
Uranium needs to be purified to 90 per cent for nuclear weapons and last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said its monitors had detected that Iran now had the capability of enriching uranium to close to 84 per cent.
In response to a question from James Edward Banks, US representative for Indiana's 3rd congressional district, Colin Kahl, the Pentagon's top policy official, was asked to describe Iran's nuclear progress since then-President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal.
