Iran may succeed in producing a nuclear weapon within little more than two years, a US senator said Tuesday.
An exiled Iranian opposition group said in Washington Tuesday that the Tehran government has two secret nuclear sites, in addition to two others revealed last year.
If confirmed, that would put Tehran on a fast track to developing nuclear arms, said Senator Sam Brownback, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"Reports from inside Iran are now estimating that with the discovery of these additional sites, Iran may have the nuclear bomb by the end of 2005," said Brownback.
"One of the sites, Kolahduz, is set in the middle of a major military facility," Brownback said.
"This flies in the face of Iranian claims that their nuclear interest is purely civilian," he said. (Albawaba.com)
