BBC Expert Warns Trump's Air Strikes May Have 'Accelerated' Iran's Nuclear Weapons Programme

Donald Trump speaks from the East Room of the White House after the U.S. military struck three Iranian nuclear and military sites.Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Iran could may have “accelerated” the country’s programme to build a nuclear bomb, according to a BBC expert.Frank Gardner, the corporation’s security correspondent, said the Tehran regime may even have been able to “spirit out” the material needed before the US air strikes even took place.Trump has insisted that the American attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites were “a spectacular military success”.He said: “Iran’s key nuclear facilities and been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.”On Radio 5Live this morning, Gardner said the world was at “a really scary inflection point” as a result of the US air strikes.“The US has done this single, dramatic raid that it believes has done total damage to Iran’s nuclear programme, but the big question is ’has it really or has Iran managed to spirit out all those hundreds of kilogrammes of highly enriched uranium in trucks, as satellite imagery is showing, before that raid,’” he said.“Has Iran retained enough highly enriched uranium, and the knowledge and the means to weaponise it? It only takes a decision from the Ayatollah to say ‘do you know what, our best means of defence is a deterrent, go for it, build a bomb’.“I’m not saying that is the case, but that is the risk. That is the big question that we don’t know the answer to. The question here is ’has this entire war, started by Israel on June 13, joined by the US, stopped Iran’s dangerous nuclear programme in its tracks, or has it accelerated it towards the point at which they are going to have a nuclear bomb?’”Related...9 Questions Remaining Over Iran-Israel Conflict After Trump's StrikesDavid Lammy Won't Say Whether The Government Supports Trump's Bombing Of Iran'Downhill From Here For Trump': Senior BBC Reporter's Bleak Prediction After Iran Strikes

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