CIA chief: Iran could produce weapons-grade uranium within weeks – William Burns’s comments come just days after U.N. nuclear watchdog inspectors detected uranium enriched to 84 percent in the Islamic Republic. | JNS.org

(February 26, 2023 / JNS) Iran could enrich uranium to weapons-grade within weeks, but the United States does not believe Tehran has made the decision to do so, said CIA chief William Burns on Saturday.
Burns was speaking to CBS News’ “Face the Nation” just days after U.S. nuclear watchdog inspectors detected uranium enriched to 84 percent in the Islamic Republic, just below the 90% mark considered to be “military grade.”
“To the best of our knowledge, we don’t believe that the supreme leader in Iran has yet made a decision to resume the weaponization program that we judged that they suspended, or stopped, at the end of 2003,” said Burns in the interview, which airs in full on Sunday.