Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build it, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told Al Jazeera's Arabic service on Sunday.
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"In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium ... Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build it," Kamal Kharrazi said, adding that Tehran would never negotiate over its missile program and regional policy. The US and the International Atomic Energy Agency have in recent months warned that Iran's accelerated pace of enrichment and sophisticated array of operational centrifuges mean that it has enough enriched uranium for a bomb, even though it is unclear whether it has the know-how to make it fully operational or put it on a missile.
The official added that Tehran will directly respond against Israel should its security be targeted, presumably referring to the string of assassinations and mysterious deaths of Iranian officials who were connected to Iran's missile and nuclear programs, as well as to the recent death of a senior official in the Revolutionary Guards.
Some of those attacks have been attributed by foreign media to Israel, as have various explosions and cyber attacks, although Israel has not confirmed this.
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