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INTERVIEW. Researcher and ex-diplomat Michael Singh points to the US president’s inability to curb Iranian nuclear advances.
By Armin Arefi
![Affirming to privilege the diplomatic way, the American president Joe Biden repeats that “all the options are on the table” to prevent Iran from acquiring atomic weapons. Affirming to privilege the diplomatic way, the American president Joe Biden repeats that “all the options are on the table” to prevent Iran from acquiring atomic weapons.](https://static.lpnt.fr/images/2023/05/21/24524922lpw-24526300-article-jpg_9532546_660x287.jpg)
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Jnever has the Islamic Republic been so close to the atomic bomb. If he denies that its nuclear program has military aims, Iran would be only “a few weeks” from possessing enough highly enriched uranium to make a weapon, according to the latest estimates from the CIA, which specifies that However, no political decision has been taken in Tehran in this direction. Inexorably, Iran’s latest advances bring this country into the club of nuclear “threshold powers”, having the technical capabilities to acquire atomic weapons without having taken the plunge.
They sound like a bitter failure for Joe Biden who, since his accession to the White House in January 2021, had returned to diplomacy to bring the Islamic Republic…