Nuclear Iran: where’s the evidence of threat?

YOUR columnist Steven King (May 26) writes that “regime change is then perhaps the only strategy that will deny Iran a nuclear bomb”. The alternative regime he has in mind is one led by the Green movement which, he says, merits our wholehearted support.

This assumes the present Iranian regime is developing nuclear weapons, whereas the International Atomic Energy Agency has found no evidence that Iran has, or ever had, a nuclear weapons programme.

Its latest report last February repeats the message of earlier reports that only low enriched uranium suitable for a power generation reactor is being produced at Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant and that no nuclear material is being diverted from that plant for other purposes, for example, to further enrich uranium to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons.