Bolton said that without more nuclear power plants, it made no sense for Iran to stockpile more low-enriched uranium as it now plans to do. Iran has set a July 7 deadline for Europe to offer better terms to the unraveling nuclear deal, otherwise it will resume enrichment closer to weapons level. "There's no reason for them to do any of that unless that's part of an effort to reduce the breakout time to produce nuclear weapons," Bolton said. However, Western powers pushed for the nuclear deal to limit Iran's ability to seek atomic weapons. "This is just more graphic evidence that it hasn't constrained their continuing desire to have nuclear weapons," Bolton added.

Source: CBC News May 29, 2019 10:18 UTC