Posted on 04/07/2015 8:25:05 AM PDT by Star Traveler
President concedes Iran framework nuclear agreement’s shortcomings amid growing chorus of objections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending an emerging nuclear deal, President Barack Obama said Iran would be kept a year away from obtaining a nuclear weapon for more than a decade, but conceded Tuesday that the buffer period could shrink to almost nothing after 13 or more years.
Obama, whose top priority at the moment is to sell the framework deal to critics, was pushing back on the charge that the deal fails to eliminate the risk because it allows Iran to keep enriching uranium. He told NPR News that Iran will be capped for a decade at 300 kilograms — not enough to convert to a stockpile of weapons-grade material.
“What is a more relevant fear would be that in Year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point, the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero,” Obama said.
Breakout time refers to how long it would take to build a bomb if Iran decided to pursue one full-bore — in other words, how long the rest of the world would have to stop it. The framework deal, if honored, expands Iran’s breakout time — currently two to three months — to at least a year. But that constraint would stay in place only for 10 years, at which point some restrictions would start phasing out.
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So we guaranteed Iran the right to have nukes. Amazing!!
The Iranians are sitting on an ocean of oil. No reason for the world to allow the Mullah to have nuclear anything.
We’re toast: Lebanese journalist says “the West has capitulated” to Iran
http://allenbwest.com/2015/04/were-toast-lebanese-journalist-says-the-west-has-capitulated-to-iran/
More than enough time to complete the USA’s 2-state solution and bring peace to the area.
THEIR project IS shovel ready!! :)
Obama Doctrine ,Lie ,Cheat and Delay until it’s too Late
It’s a bit more problematic with the Iranian nuclear facilities. Those Iranian ones are buried deep in the rocks of the mountains ... kinda like the “Cheyenne Mountain Complex” in the USA
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex
We need a two-state solution for the US.
This is really a no brainer. The only way to prevent Iran from getting a nuke is to blow up their facilities at this time. That is the only rational solution. Every other solution leads to Iran having a Nuclear bomb at some point.
Blast the front door and ventilation shafts. Bury the Iranian sites.
If Israel were to do that, they would pretty much have one shot at it (one shot being a relatively short period of time). After that, things better be destroyed and be made incapable of reconstructing easily.
But, from what I can see, this would take the USA to do this over a longer period of time and sustaining the attack over a few weeks, and maybe a month or so, before these sites could be considered “obliterate” and beyond any use. It would take repeated strikes with nuclear bunker busters to obliterate them, and then that would make it the first time that the USA had used its nuclear weapons since the bombing of Japan.
Israel doesn’t have that capability and capacity (like the USA), as the Iranian facilities are already well-buried (as for your reference in burying them) and they would be easily reconstructed for other entry-ways because the main facility deep underground would be preserved.
Israel would do no more that put a “bump in the road” for Iran and not effectively stop their nuclear program.
Repeated use of non nuclear bunker busters would destroy the sites. I remember a show on WW2 where the Germans had a large bunker that our bombs could not destroy so the Allies bombed the ground around it and tipped it off to one side.
At Corregidor in WW2 the Marines retook it by pouring gas down the ventilation shafts.
The Iranian sites are static. They can be destroyed.
Best thing to do is kill the Iranian leadership.
A..........MEN brother!
Some mindset to have going into negotiations,so as usual all of Obama’s statements regarding this deal are as good as ,your healthcare premiums will go down 2500 dollars,or my plans will not increase any taxes on the American people
Good one!
That is why Israel will use neutron bombs and kill everyone in Iran. That is the only assured method now since the US is run by crooks.
Obama lies (always). Iran will likely have working nukes in 3 years or less. Obama’s goal is to have America attacked (and he hopes defeated) in the year after he’s out of office. Everything he’s been doing is with that goal in mind... weakened military, divided citizenry, lazy populace, corruption at every level of government, etc.
Israel doesn’t commit war crimes. When they destroyed the nuclear reactor in Iraq, they specifically did it in a way to minimize the loss of civilians.
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