The French Minister of Foreign Affairs spoke on Friday January 10 on the Iranian nuclear program. Asked about RTL, Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Iran could access nuclear weapons in one or two years if it continues to "unravel" the Vienna agreement, about its nuclear program, concluded in 2015.
Today the Iranians "are not in a position to have it but if they continue the unraveling of the Vienna agreement, then yes within a fairly short time, between one and two years, they could access the weapon nuclear, which is not an option, "he said.
Iran is in open crisis with the United States since the choice of US President Donald Trump, in May 2018, to unilaterally withdraw from the 2015 agreement which gradually lifted sanctions against the Islamic Republic in exchange for a limitation of its nuclear program.
Tehran has responded by going back on some of its commitments made under this agreement signed by
Germany, China, France, Great Britain, Russia and the United States.
The crisis between Washington and the Islamic Republic escalated in early January with the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, killed by an American strike in Baghdad, which was followed by a series of Iranian retaliatory missiles which did not have made no American casualties.
This verbal and military escalation led the European Union to urgently organize a meeting at the level of the bloc's foreign ministers this Friday afternoon in Brussels.
"We need to coordinate with each other to maximize the effort made to avoid an escalation, not only for the Iranians but also for the Americans," said a French diplomatic source. "What worries most is 'miscalculation'".
With Reuters
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