Attempt to destroy Iran’s nuclear programme could backfire and drive regime towards a bomb, experts warn

US-Israeli onslaught may lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpile

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The US-Israeli onslaught against Iran is intended to resolve a 24-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme, but it runs the risk of backfiring and driving the regime towards making a secret bomb, proliferation experts have warned.

The regime in Tehran has long insisted that the programme is for civilian purposes and it has no intention of making a nuclear weapon. However, since two undeclared sites, for uranium enrichment and heavy water plutonium production, were discovered in 2002, the programme has been treated with intense suspicion.