JERUSALEM, Israel – As Israel fights Hamas in the south and prepares for a potentially greater conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria in the north, Iran remains a major player behind the chaos.
Many analysts say that is due to the Tehran regime’s efforts to distract the world from what is happening with the country’s nuclear program.
Yonah Bob, military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, told CBN News, “Whether it is a formal strategy or it’s just happening that way, it’s absolutely a danger. Iran threw out the nuclear inspectors, eight most important ones, in September 2023; they tripled the speed of enriching uranium for most of the last few months between 60 percent and 20 percent enriched uranium.”
Experts believe the regime has enough uranium to make up to eight nuclear weapons.
“They could enrich to 90 percent weaponized uranium in like a week or two,” Bob explained. “Israel, the United States – the world – is very distracted by Hamas, Hezbollah and the rest of the world by Ukraine. So could Iran try to break out now? Yeah.”
Iran claims it successfully launched three satellites earlier this year. Bob sees this as especially significant in terms of weapons delivery systems.
“The technology they
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