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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/08/trump-must-act-now-to-crush-irans-nuclear-dream/
U.S. Is Running Out of Time to Crush Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
(Telegraph-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - The Islamic Republic is feverishly building up its offensive military capabilities. The most recent International Atomic Energy Agency report says Tehran has been producing enough 60% enriched uranium to make one nuclear weapon every month and now has enough material to build ten bombs. It would take no more than two weeks to further enrich this to the 90% required to achieve weapons-grade. President Trump gave the ayatollahs two months to reach a deal. That two months is up now and all proposals have apparently been rejected. Iran's nuclear program threatens the world. But Israel is most immediately in Khamenei's cross-hairs with his repeated guarantees to annihilate it. Iran will do everything it can to spin out talks with the U.S., doing its best to lead the negotiators along. Yet, even if a deal is agreed, it won't be worth the paper it's written on. Tehran repeatedly breached the terms of Obama's deal as well as its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Whatever obfuscation it comes up with, Iran will not voluntarily surrender its nuclear weapons program. All that these negotiations will therefore achieve is to obstruct and delay the inevitable. It is imperative that the U.S. now gives a green light to Israel to do what it has to do, and provide it with whatever support it needs. The consequences of failure to act go beyond Iran's nuclear capabilities and will also be measured in Moscow and Beijing. Anything other than a hard line with Tehran will be taken as a sign of weakness. If a (not yet) nuclear armed state can't be prevented from endangering the world by the American superpower, then what hope is there for anyone deterring two other nuclear states. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.