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Iranian Nuclear Bomb in Three Months?

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- Increasing numbers of people are speaking out against the pending U.S.-led deal with Iran, thought to endanger not just Israel and the region, but the world at large.

June 30 is the deadline to finalize what many consider a flawed agreement at best.

Neither Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warnings against the deal in its present form or bipartisan congressional opposition appear to have fazed President Barack Obama. He insists the pending deal is the best way to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms, though many think the opposite is true.

In an article in The New York Times, reported by The Israel Project's Daily TIP, Texas University associate professor Alan J. Kuperman believes Iran could enrich enough uranium to produce its first bomb within three months.

Kuperman, coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, said the deal allows Iran to keep 14,000 excess centrifuges rather than destroying or exporting them, facilitating its production of nuclear weapons.

Former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Oli Heinonen said Iran's breakout time for a nuclear weapon is less than a year.

David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, said "the centrifuges in excess of a limit should ideally be destroyed."

"Otherwise, Iran could re-install them, building back to its original enrichment capacity," Albright said. "This restoration of capacity would lead to very short breakout times, far less than a year."

The U.S.-endorsed deal does not hinder Iran's ongoing development of advanced centrifuges, allowing for more efficient uranium enrichment.

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