Iran ‘now probably 1 or 2 weeks away’ from nuclear weapon breakout: Blinken

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Friday that Iran's ability to rapidly produce enough weapons-grade material for a nuclear weapon is “now probably one or two weeks away.”

“Iran, because of the nuclear agreement was thrown out, instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that,” Blinken told at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

“They haven’t produced a weapon itself, but that’s something of course that we track very, very carefully,” he added.