WASHINGTON — As they made their public case this week for another U.S. military campaign against Iran, President Donald Trump and his aides asserted that Iran has restarted its nuclear program, has enough available nuclear material to build a bomb within days, and is developing long-range missiles that will soon be capable of hitting the United States.
All three of these claims are either false or unproven.
U.S. and European government officials, international weapons monitoring groups and reports from U.S. intelligence agencies give a far different picture of the urgency of the Iran threat than the one the White House has presented in recent days.
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Iran has taken steps to dig out the nuclear facilities hit during strikes in June by Israel and the United States, and it has resumed work at some sites long known to U.S. spy agencies. But the officials said there isn’t evidence that Iran has made active efforts to resume enriching uranium or trying to build a mechanism to detonate a bomb.
The stockpiles of uranium that Iran has already enriched remain buried after last year’s strikes, making it nearly impossible for Iran to build a bomb “within days.”
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