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02-03-09 Iran has enough material to make nuclear bomb:US admiral

The United States believes Iran has enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb,top military officer Admiral Mike Mullen said on Sunday,marking the first time Washington has made such an assessment."We think they do,quite frankly," Mullen told CNN when asked if Iran had enough nuclear material to manufacture an atomic bomb."And Iran having a nuclear weapon,I've believed for a long time,is a very,very bad outcome for the region and for the world," said Mullen, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.While the United States and European allies have expressed concern previously that Iran could soon have sufficient enriched uranium to manufacture a nuclear weapon,Mullen's more definitive comments went a step further.The admiral's remarks came in the wake of a report by the UN nuclear watchdog,the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),that said Tehran had made major strides in its uranium enrichment work