Iran Nuke 'A Couple Of Years' Away: Petraeus

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iran is still "a couple of years" away from having enough highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said Sunday.

"The bottom line: we think it's a couple of years away in that regard. It could be more, could be a little bit less," General David Petraeus, the head of the US Central Command, said in interview on CNN.

"There are certainly a lot of facts that we don't know about what goes on inside Iran," he added.

The United States and its European allies fear that Tehran intends to acquire a nuclear weapon under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, which Iran denies.

But Petraeus noted that to acquire a weapon, Iran must have enough highly enriched uranium, must make a warhead and have long-range missiles capable of delivering them. US intelligence believes Iran halted a secret program to design a nuclear weapon in 2003.

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[soothsayer]

1. boogety boogety boogety! the monster is coming! run!!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. MR PRESIDENT, DON'T TRUST THIS BUSH PLANT

TALK ABOUT A SNAKE IN THE GRASS !!!!

[Idealism]

3. The Persians are coming, the Persians are coming!!

Fucking morons.