The US intelligence community believes that Tehran may start building a nuclear bomb if the US strikes the Fordow uranium enrichment facility, Report informs referring to The New York Times (NYT) citing sources.
In their opinion, the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may also prompt Iran to make a nuclear weapon. US intelligence believes that Tehran has not yet made the final decision on whether it should make a bomb, the report says.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt earlier noted that the Washington administration believes that Iran can create nuclear weapons within "a couple of weeks" if its leadership makes such a decision.
Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, said in March that US intelligence agencies had found no evidence suggesting Iran was working to build a nuclear weapon. She added that Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had not authorized a revival of the country’s nuclear weapons development program suspended in 2003. Gabbard said the US intelligence community is closely monitoring Iran's nuclear activities.