Iran nears ‘bomb-grade’ uranium

Iran could have enough weapons-grade uranium for an atomic bomb within a month — after the country abandoned every limitation under the 2015 global nuclear accord and has been enriching the chemical element, a new report says.

The Institute for Science and International Security, a US-based think tank, said in a report published Monday that the Islamic Republic could produce enough of the uranium for one nuke in as little as a month in a “worst-case” scenario, according to the Times of Israel.

Iran, which already has 200 grams of the enriched uranium in its stockpile, could produce enough of it for a second weapon in three months and for a third in five months, according to the experts, led by former UN nuclear inspector David Albright.

The report did not include the time it would take Tehran to actually assemble a deliverable bomb — one that could be installed on a ballistic missile warhead, the Israeli paper noted.

Last month, the Israel Defense Forces estimated that the process would take possibly up to a year, the outlet reported.

Unnamed US officials who have seen classified estimates are prevented from addressing official assessments — but have acknowledged to The New York

Times that they believed it would take Iran only a few months to develop enough fuel for a bomb.

Last month, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned Iran was “only two months away from acquiring the materials necessary for a nuclear weapon,” according to the Times of Israel.