The Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly has enough enriched uranium to produce five nuclear weapons, a top Israeli official warned this week.

The news comes as President Joe Biden’s administration has failed to secure a new nuclear agreement with Iran and has failed to stop Iran from continuing to develop its nuclear program.

Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said during a trip to Greece on Thursday that Iran would “not be satisfied by a single nuclear bomb.”

“It has already accumulated enough enriched uranium at the 20% and 60% levels for five nuclear bombs,” he said. “If Iran enriches to the 90% weaponized level, it would be a great error and the price would be heavy, and there would be consequences which could inflame the Middle East.”

Uranium found in nature only contains 0.7% uranium-235 (U-235), which is needed to create the chain reaction that causes a nuclear explosion, the remaining 99.3% is uranium-238 (U-238). Scientists use centrifuges to separate the two isotopes and the remaining U-235 is taken and then further enriched to either be used for energy production, medical purposes, or nuclear weapons.

To make a nuclear weapon, scientists need to enrich uranium to 90%, however, enriching uranium to just 20% represents a major threat because “enriching uranium to 20% represents about 90% of the effort needed to produce weapons grade fissile material,” said the Center For Arms Control And Non-Proliferation. “Once a proliferator reaches this threshold, it could be ready to weaponize in a relatively short time.”

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said on Thursday that a nuclear Iran could fundamentally change geopolitics forever.

“To have Iran being able to threaten every city in the United States with nuclear blackmail is a changing of history,” Netanyahu told a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers. “Iran is 50 North Koreas. It is not merely a neighborhood bully like the dynasty that rules North Korea.”

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“This is an ideological force that views us, Israel, as the small Satan and views you as the Great Satan,” Netanyahu told U.S. lawmakers.

U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan claimed this week that despite the Biden administration’s failures on Iran, the administration “made clear to Iran that it can never be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon.”

“As President [Joe] Biden has repeatedly reaffirmed, he will take the actions necessary to stand by this statement, including by recognizing Israel’s freedom of action,” Sullivan said. “This is an issue that occupies the president’s attention, my attention, on a daily basis. Iran’s program has advanced considerably. It is a genuine danger to regional security and to global security, and, indeed, to the United States of America. And we are going to continue to take action to, yes, deter Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and then to seek a diplomatic solution that puts this on a long-term pathway of stability.”

A 49-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced to over a decade in prison after he was convicted of assaulting police officers at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. 

Peter Schwartz was sentenced to 14 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta over his actions, which included pepper spraying and throwing a folding chair at a group of officers at the Capitol. The sentence is the longest so far for any of the January 6-related convictions. 

Prosecutors had asked that Schwartz, a welder with previous convictions for violence and threats of violence, be locked up for 24 years, a sentence Schwartz’s lawyers vigorously opposed. Defense lawyer Dennis Boyle said that a 24-year sentence “would give credence to all those who consider this a political prosecution.”

Schwartz was arrested while working as a welder in Pennsylvania, but has said that Kentucky is his home.

Mehta decided to give him 14 years, saying that his 38 prior convictions did play a role in the decision. He said that Schwartz was a “soldier against democracy,” claiming that he pushed forward “the kind of mayhem, chaos that had never been seen in the country’s history.”

“You are not a political prisoner,” said Mehta, an Indian-born judge who was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 2014 by Barack Obama. “You’re not somebody who is standing up against injustice or fighting against an autocratic regime.”

In a court filing, Schwartz’s lawyer’s referred to Donald Trump as a “grifter” and said that Schwartz no longer believed that the 2020 election was stolen. 

“There remain many grifters out there who remain free to continue propagating the ‘great lie’ that Trump won the election, Donald Trump being the most prominent. Mr. Schwartz is not one of these individuals; he knows he was wrong,” the lawyers said. 

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Schwartz told Mehta that he was sorry about the damage that had been caused on January 6, but the judge said he didn’t believe him. “You took it upon yourself to try and injure multiple police officers that day,” the judge said. 

The welder threw a chair that prosecutors said, “directly contributed to the fall of the police line that enabled rioters to flood forward and take over the entire terrace.” Additionally, he sprayed pepper spray at police, using a “super soaker” canister. Prosecutors said that no officers were hit with the spray. 

“While the stream of liquid did not directly hit any officer, its effect was to heighten the danger to the officers in that tunnel,” prosecutor Jocelyn Bond said. 

Schwartz’s wife was also sentenced to two years in prison over her actions on January 6 and has reportedly filed for divorce. In a previous interview, Schwartz referred to his trial as “a sham, in the face of irrefutable video evidence.”