Ahead of Trump admin-Iran talks, new report says Iran nuclear threat rises to 'extreme danger'

JERUSALEM — A starring U.S. probe institute devoted to monitoring Iran’s illicit atomic weapons programme published an alarming study up of this weekend's U.S.-Iran talks, declaring Tehran’s atomic weapons strategy has reached an highly unsafe stage.

The Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Science and International Security titled its shocking caller report, "The Iran Threat Geiger Counter: Extreme Danger Grows." 

According to the study, "Since February 2024, the day of its past report, the menace posed by Iran’s atomic programme has worsened significantly. Major antagonistic factors see Iran’s greater atomic limb capabilities, its shorter clip frames to physique atomic weapons, and the increasing normalization of interior Iranian discussions favoring gathering atomic weapons.

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Iran's ultimate person Ali Khamenei, left, and President Donald Trump see nonstop subject engagement. (West Asia News Agency, Reuters | Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

"The anticipation of Iran deciding to physique atomic weapons has been accrued by the ongoing subject conflicts successful the Middle East, pitting Iran and its proxy forces against Israel and its allies, a struggle Iran is losing. The volatile information concern is present combined with the perception, if not the reality, that Iran is preparing to physique atomic weapons."

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said, "We person a small time, but we don't person overmuch time, due to the fact that we're not going to fto them person a nuclear weapon. We can't fto them person a atomic weapon."  He added "I'm not asking for much. I conscionable — I don't — they can't person a atomic weapon."

When asked astir the imaginable for subject enactment if Iran does not marque a woody connected their atomic weapons, Trump said, "Absolutely."

"If it requires military, we're going to person military," the president told reporters astatine the White House. "Israel volition evidently beryllium precise overmuch progressive successful that. They'll beryllium the person of that. But cipher leads us. We bash what we privation to do."

Trump withdrew from the Obama-era Iran atomic deal—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—in 2018 because, helium argued, that the accord did not halt Tehran’s thrust to physique a atomic weapons device.

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In this June 6, 2018 framework drawback from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting state-run TV, 3 versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown successful a unrecorded TV programme from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, successful Iran. (IRIB via AP, File)

A state-controlled Iranian quality outlet claimed connected Monday that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s alleged fatwa against atomic weapons does not outlaw their accumulation but bans their use. Fox News Digital sought to get a transcript of the alleged spiritual fatwa from Iran, but the authorities has truthful acold refused to supply the document. Iran experts person claimed that the fatwa is non-existent. 

The Institute for Science and International Security study besides warned that "Iran inactive possesses subject capabilities that endanger the region. It has ample stockpiles of drones, ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles that it tin employment against Israel and its allies. Iran besides continues to beryllium a large subordinate successful the Ukraine war, backing Russia with immense arms transfers, including drones and missiles."

The mouthpiece of Iran’s Khamenei—the anti-American insubstantial Kayhan—just urged the assassination of Trump.

Technicians enactment wrong a uranium conversion installation producing portion connected March 30, 2005, conscionable extracurricular the metropolis of Isfahan, astir 254 miles southbound of the capital, Tehran, Iran. (Getty Images)

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A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital that "Threatening connection from the Iranian authorities oregon its mouthpiece against the President, oregon immoderate American, is unwise."

Iran’s authorities has sought to assassinate Iranian American dissidents connected American soil.

Fox News Digital newsman Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.