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What I think is going to be that the chances of terrorists of various green shades setting off dirty bombs grew higher.Dirty Bomb would be highly valuable for a terrorist organization, but have no strategic value for any nation state that is ready to acknowledge its use in enemy territory
About 20 Kgs of 90% enriched Uranium is required to make a single useful nuclear weapon that can be deployed via Fighter jets or typical BM. Additional 20% by weight is required to account for material loss when it is machined to fit inside weapon
Iran currently has enough Uranium for 8-10 bombs enriched to 60%. This already covers 90% of the effort required to reach 90% for weapons grade.
Iran`s current generation centrifuges are about 8x more efficient than their 1st generation ones requiring much less space to process same amount of material. This enables them to further process Uranium in multiple small labs, as small as 12000 sq ft, which are much more difficult to identify.
They can easily build a weapon every 3 months with current stock, if uninterrupted, which increasingly looks like will be the case unless there is regime change
Iran can't hit it's adversaries openly anymore, so they might go the route of giving some jihadis dirty bombs. If they can't enrich their uranium due to Americo- Israel influence, that seems a very possible route they'll take.