Iran 'one to two weeks away' from weapons-grade nuclear material as US continues sanctions relief

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Friday that Iran could produce fissile nuclear material in "one or two weeks" as the State Department renews a sanctions waiver for Iraq to buy Iranian energy.

Critics were quick to blame the Biden administration for enabling Iran to pursue nuclear weapons by allowing the rogue nation to sell its oil. Biden reversed many of former President Trump's tough sanctions against Tehran.

"What's breathtaking is the complete lack of self-awareness that it was his own maximum deference policy that brought us to this moment, and worse, that his solution is to double down on the failed appeasement strategy," Rich Goldberg, senior advisor at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and former Trump administration NSC official, told Fox News Digital.

"Rather than snapping back the U.N. sanctions and testing maximum pressure, the administration just extended a sanctions waiver and is conducting indirect negotiations via Oman," Goldberg lamented.

Blinken spoke this week at the annual Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, addressing Iran's march toward a nuclear weapon and admitting that "instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, (Iran) is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that."

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