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Several experts in international security and non-proliferation joined with representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Washington<\/a>, D.C. on Wednesday to discuss the current status of Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions following the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of the first public revelations about the country\u2019s nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n On August 14, 2002, the NCRI held a press conference in Washington to provide details about ongoing work with relevance to nuclear weapons, at clandestine sites near the Iranian cities of Natanz and Arak. The ensuing global scrutiny soon prompted the Iranian regime to acknowledge the existence of those two sites, while the International Atomic Energy Agency initiated an investigation and monitoring process that persists to this day.<\/p>\n That investigation has been continually informed by disclosures from<\/a> the NCRI, of which there have been more than 100 over the past 20 years, according to Soona Samsami of the NCRI\u2019s US representative office. \u201cWere it not for those revelations, the most active state sponsor of terror would have had the most dangerous weapon by now,\u201d she said in Wednesday\u2019s conference, while also arguing that the lack of a decisive international response to Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons ambitions has allowed it to make the sorts of advances that are on prominent display amidst fledgling negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.<\/p>\n The Iranian regime systematically has been violating its committees by enriching uranium to higher levels and in larger quantities than permitted under the JCPOA, while also installing arrays of advanced centrifuges that would allow even more rapid enrichment in the future. Now, the regime is routinely enriching uranium to 60 percent fissile purity, well above the 20-percent maximum it had achieved prior to the signing of the JCPOA, and just a short technical step away from weapons-grade.<\/p>\n The regime and its apologists have frequently attempted to frame those advancements as reversible penalties for the US withdrawal. But IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has acknowledged that Iran\u2019s nuclear program has grown beyond the point at which the JCPOA\u2019s original terms would constrain it effectively. Meanwhile, Iranian regime officials and institutions have been using those advancements to openly boast<\/a> about the prospect of \u201cbreaking out\u201d to nuclear weapons capability.<\/p>\n November 27, 2021, Fereydoun Abbasi, former head of #Iran<\/a> regime\u2019s Atomic Energy Organization, confessed in an interview, that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the assassinated former head of the regime\u2019s nuclear weapons project, had created a system to produce a nuclear bomb. #IAEA<\/a> 11\/ pic.twitter.com\/QYux6XOEvi<\/a><\/p>\n — Alireza Jafarzadeh (@A_Jafarzadeh) June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n