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The Institute for Science and International Security's (ISIS) report on Iran will not have any effects, Professor of chemical engineering in Southern California University, Muhammad Sahimi told Trend news agency.

Sahimi made the remark when commenting on a recent report by the Institute claiming Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month.

The report by the Institute for Science and International Security was based on the latest reports by Iran and the IAEA.

President of the institute and a former inspector for the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency David Albright said the estimate means that Iran would have to eliminate more than half of its 19,000 centrifuges to extend the time it would take to build a bomb to six months.

In the report, Albright said negotiations with Iran should focus on so-called "breakout" times, or the time required to convert low-enriched uranium to weapons-grade.

Albright, who has testified before Congress, said the negotiators should try to find ways to lengthen the breakout times and shorten the time that inspectors could detect breakout.

The Obama administration has said Iran is probably a year away from having enough enriched uranium to make a bomb.

Mohammad Sahimi said that David Albright has issued such warnings for a long time, none of which has turned out to be correct.

"He considers the most extreme and the unlikeliest scenarios, and based on them makes predictions. I don't think his prediction will have any effect," he said.

The U.S. and its Western allies suspect Iran of developing a nuclear weapon - something that Iran denies.

The Islamic Republic has on numerous occasions stated that it does not seek to develop nuclear weapons, using nuclear energy for medical researches instead.