Iran “could develop a nuclear weapon as early as next year”

Iran could develop nuclear weapons by as early as next year, the Defence Secretary claimed yesterday.

Liam Fox issued his starkest warning to date that the hardline Islamic state was on the brink of producing atomic warheads.

In astonishingly hawkish remarks to MPs, the Cabinet minister said it was ‘entirely possible’ that the regime in Tehran would have got its hands on a weapon of mass destruction by 2012.

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