Former CIA Director and retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus told Newsmax on Friday that the U.S. and Israel will never let Iran have a nuclear bomb, even though the Islamic regime is close to developing weapons-grade uranium.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said earlier this week that Iran is weeks rather than months away from possessing enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb. Iran reportedly has uranium enriched at 60% and needs it to reach 90% to be weapons-grade.

“What the head of the IAEA is saying is that it would only take a few weeks for them to go from the current stage of enrichment, which is about 60%, to weapons-grade, which is roughly 90%,” Petraeus told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “That, I think, is absolutely correct. And they have enough of the 60% that they could produce enough weapons-grade for a bomb.

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