WASHINGTON (AFP)-the rapid progress in Iran does not acquire the nuclear weapon, US expert said Friday, adding he believed Tehran yet another two years to achieve that objective.
"Iran is not moving as fast as it could. They've been after 25 years since the Iranian enrichment program began in approximately 1985, "said Mark Fitzpatrick for the International Institute of strategic studies.
He said Iran still "a little more than two years is the bomb."
Fitzpatrick also compared to the slow progress of Tehran, to acquire the nuclear Pakistan took in the capacity as he presented the IISS report entitled 11 years "on Iran's nuclear, chemical and biological characteristics: evaluation of the net."
But Fitzpatrick, a former State Department employee, added in Iran was still not yet fully decided whether to continue to make a nuclear bomb.
"As long as they have not made that decision, I think there is still time for diplomacy," he said.
At the end of December, the Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Yaalon, said several recent setbacks had delayed Tehran for the acquisition of nuclear capability in n.
One of them was the Stuxnet of Internet virus, worm, which some suspect was developed by Israel and the United States and that began to affect the producing enriched uranium, an essential part of the nuclear bombing of Iran's centrifuges.
The New York Times reported in January that the US and Israeli Intelligence Services Department to develop a computer worm.
"Stuxnet have had an impact on the calculation of the pohjaanpolkaisusta some centrifugues. But it is not a complete success, because they were able to work, "Fitzpatrick said.
UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran had also been alleged nuclear program, Washington has said.
-To ensure that nuclear materials would be used for the battle of the top-of-a-2 missile was the Sajil also still "two years away is a functional," Fitzpatrick said.
But the IISS report said Iran's nuclear program has been Unforgiving in the past 25 years, and claimed that the Iranian regime's insistence that it was the only peaceful civilian population were simply not credible.
Iran hit four sets UN sanctions to refuse its suspected nuclear program and stop the banks of the uranium enrichment in the middle of the accusations in the United States and other Western Nations that it will develop in the absence of the atomic bomb.
Tehran argued against the sky and check on the allegations.
An influential Us Senator said last week the closed door, when classified intelligence briefing book from Iran that Tehran is "seriously" to develop nuclear weapons.
"I cannot say much more detailed, but it is pretty Clear that you are still in the process, in the event of a serious nuclear weapons program," the independent Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told AFP.
The legislature, which holds a seat in the Senate Armed Forces Committee, also spoke of the briefing book "top Us intelligence officials, the weapons of mass destruction, the most recent US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran.
The last part of the Iran NIE, the rating in December 2007, "high confidence" that Tehran was "halted its nuclear weapons program" at the end of 2003. The document is the consensus View of all 16 us spy agencies.
In February, US officials told AFP on condition of anonymity in the United States intelligence agencies believe the Iranian leaders are locked, to build nuclear weapons, and that the penalties are aggravated by the Division on the conversation.
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