Is A Nuclear-Armed Iran Imminent?

The Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the United States is thought to have worked on the Iran nuclear program at this suspected uranium-enrichment facility near Qom, Iran. DigitalGlobe/Handout/REUTERS

No Imminent Threat Of A Nuclear-Armed Iran, Experts Say -- L.A. Times

Israeli and U.S. politicians lately have been bandying about the prospect of an airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities, stirring fear that another destabilizing clash could be provoked in a region already rife with civil war in Syria and other religious and political tensions.

But nonproliferation experts and Middle East analysts are skeptical of Israeli claims that the Tehran regime is so close to building a nuclear weapon that time is running out for a peaceful resolution of the decades-long standoff.

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My Comment: I have always been of the opinion that what Iran really wants are the facilities on hand to make enriched nuclear material necessary for a nuclear weapon .... not necessarily a complete nuclear weapons program that results in having a stockpile of nuclear weapons in some bunker. And while this is a position that the Iranian regime feels comfortable standing by .... everyone else has a problem in seeing the distinction .... and they are right.

Is a nuclear-armed Iran imminent .... for the moment probably not. But a time is fast approaching when Iran will be in a position in which if they choose to be a nuclear armed state .... the process can be done very quickly because they have the facilities and nuclear material available and on hand to do it.