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by wing-_-nuts 1410 days ago
To be fair, they're probably going the israeli route and have 'turn key' nukes. No way they don't have enough highly enriched material for a bomb or two by now. It's just not in their interest to advertise it.
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Let's ignore how incredibly difficult that'd be given the amount of scrutiny Iran has been under for decades.

We basically know Israel has nukes because testing nuclear bombs is easily detectable worldwide. There aren't any other unexplained bombs activated. If Iran secretly built one, they have next to no idea if it works or how powerful it is.

So even if it wasn't nearly impossible, there's no reason to suspect they've built any.

This is fairly off topic though.

Makes sense: It's extremely expensive to maintain nuclear weapons after they're assembled.