DHAKA: The United States believes Iran is a year or a more away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

US president Barack Obama said in an interview released on Saturday by the Associated Press, describing the estimate as ‘conservative’, reports TDS.

‘Our assessment continues to be a year or more away, and in fact actually our estimate is probably more conservative than the estimates of Israeli intelligence services,’ Obama said in reply to a question about the US intelligence assessment on Iran’s timetable for nuclear weapons.

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