Today, the International Atomic Energy Agency


(IAEA) estimates that Iran has more than 180 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% — nearly weapons grade.


alert in locations frequented by tourists” for potential ter- ror attacks. An earlier world- wide advisory was issued just last year after the killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al- Zawahiri.


Terror With


Nukes? The true nightmare scenario that has haunted U.S. nation- al security officials for over two decades is terror cells armed with nuclear weapons. What if Hezbollah opera-


tives penetrated our porous southern border with a min- iature nuclear weapon? Or connected with cells already in the U.S. who had obtained critical materials needed to assemble one? Iran is fast on the way to


becoming a nuclear weapons state. Despite Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal — critics say be- cause of it — Iran was able to


CIVILIAN TOLL An injured Palestinian is carried from the site of an Israeli attack on Gaza City, while friends and family mourn Lianne Sharabi and her daughters Noiya, 16, and Yahel, 13, killed by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, at their funeral in Kfar Harif, Israel. Sharabi’s husband, Eli, is still missing.


continue enriching uranium and build new generation centrifuges with few con- straints. Today, the Internation-


al Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that Iran has more than 180 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% — nearly weapons grade. It takes anywhere from 10 to 20 kilograms of highly enriched uranium to make a bomb. Former IAEA inspector


David Albright, who heads the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C., estimates that Iran could further en- rich its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to produce a nuclear warhead in just 12 days without ever being de- tected. In one month, they could produce an additional five weapons. Within four


months, 10. And that is just with urani-


um enriched at facilities the Iranian regime has declared to the IAEA. Every analyst who has ever examined the Iranian nuclear program re- mains convinced — as does the IAEA — that Iran has un- declared enrichment plants deeply buried in mountains. In addition, the IAEA is


banned by its agreements with Iran, cemented by Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, from inspecting military facil- ities where Iran will likely as- semble its nuclear warheads. Heritage Foundation na-


tional security analyst James Carafano believes that Teh- ran will use the ongoing Mid- dle East crisis “to establish Iran as a declared nuclear weapons state,” which he believes Iran will do in the waning days of


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