# How Long Would Iran Take to Build a Nuclear Weapon

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2102499437792637279
- Source account: [@Telegraph](https://x.com/Telegraph)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:43
- Published: 2026-09-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon) If Iran did make the political decision today, if Mojtaba Khamenei has different views from his father and decides we're gonna go for it, we're gonna build a nuclear weapon, it's the only thing that will keep us safe in the long run,

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon?t=9) how many days, weeks, months, years are we looking at before they would have the ability to, to assemble a deliverable warhead?

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon?t=17) Okay. Well, and then there's different parts.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon?t=19) We think they could make weapon-grade uranium in a, in a matter of months if they, if they really set their mind to it.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon?t=26) We think it's gonna take them a year to make a kind of a non-missile deliverable nuclear weapon. I mean, and these are estimates, so I don't wanna, so I don't wanna be prodded for preciseness.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/9LskrNHHqvZX/en/how-long-would-iran-take-to-build-a-nuclear-weapon?t=36) To do- build a warhead for a ballistic missile, we think could take a couple years at least.