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Trump: Iran Has to Turn Over Uranium, Destroy Centrifuges or Get Blown Up
Breitbart ^ | May 8, 2025 | Ian Hatchett

Posted on 05/08/2025 9:29:28 AM PDT by Racketeer

On Wednesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” President Donald Trump discussed nuclear talks with Iran and stated that Iran has to turn over its uranium and either deactivate or destroy their centrifuges or else they will face strikes from the United States.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: ayatollah; china; jihad; moslem; muslim; neocons; nuclear; policy; strategy; tactics
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But one thing the world cannot have is a nuclear armed fundamentalist nutter country.

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Okay, do we all realize Pakistan is profoundly Muslim, extreme such, and have 75 or so nuclear warheads?

Also, Iran has a functioning nuclear power reactor. The fuel rods from these are extracted when exhausted. Within them, difficult to extract, but far easier than spinning material in centrifuges, we have a rich source of Plutonium 239.

About 98% of all nuclear warheads on Earth are plutonium based.

They can turn over the centrifuges and the U-235 and still get nuclear warheads.


21 posted on 05/08/2025 11:11:20 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Racketeer

Barbara Ann


22 posted on 05/08/2025 11:15:48 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Brian Griffin; jjotto
The Mullahs at least have some accumulated wisdom.

Yes, in that they figured out how to get you access to FR to post for them.

No, in that they are perpetually tied to a death cult for Israel and America.
23 posted on 05/08/2025 11:21:01 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 ( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Owen

Pu239 warheads are much harder to design.
Our advanced designs from the 80s to now all use Pu239 in the primary and U235 in the secondary.

I understand U235 is harder to compress so it needs more explosives in the primary and thus the warhead is larger.


24 posted on 05/08/2025 11:21:50 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Plutonium is more difficult, but both India and Pakistan have 75 warheads each of that type so how hard can it be.

Further, Pakistan has had those warheads 30 yrs.

It’s more difficult, but in terms of calendar, it is much quicker than spinning U235/U238 for years.


25 posted on 05/08/2025 11:36:02 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Racketeer

Most likely bluster, imo. Let’s see how Iran responds.


26 posted on 05/08/2025 11:56:09 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Owen

Pakistan and India likely have more than 75 each. Probably closer to 400 combined. But for the most part they are pointed at each other. Their conflict is localized and does not impact or impede global trade much. It’s not about them being Muslim either. I didn’t say Muslim. I said fundamentalist nutter. I fully accept I could be wrong, but I view the Pakistan/India nuclear standoff similar to the US/USSR “mutually assured destruction” doctrine. They both have them, so neither benefits from using them.

A fundamentalist death cult is totally different. Iran has shown the world what they are capable of with just conventional weapons. Iraq is not their country but they arm the Shia to attack American service members there. Yemen is not their country but they financed the Houthis to overthrow the government, the attack the Saudis, and now to attack all shipping in the Red Sea. They propped up Assad in Syria, but mainly that was a price they had to pay to get to Lebanon. Lebanon is not their country but they have infiltrated the government and heavily armed their own private destabilizing militia. They have financed Hamas in Gaza and it was a mistake for Israel to have let it get so far - 20 years of building tunnels so that Hamas can pop up, attack Israel, and then hide under the civilians.

These are the fundamentalist nutters, and they are on the run for the first time in many decades. Their tentacles reach all the way to Tehran. So, now that they are contained in most of their theaters of conflict is a good time to get some finality from it.

And it’s definitely not just about Israel. 40% of European trade goes through the Red Sea. Much of the world’s oil does too. This is about Europe, the Gulf, and Asia. None of them have the capability to even protect the waterways, let alone contain an expansionist Iran. Maybe China could, maybe, if they had the bases but would we want that? Should we care? Those are luxuries to debate. Right now is the time to make a decision. You can argue the merits of this free trade world order we are in, and it sure seems it may change a bit, but unfortunately all of these regions rely on the US for protection and there may not be much time left to make it happen.

So it’s good for Trump to let them walk away from it without conflict. Iran has really been pushed back, decades of their time money effort is up in smoke in just a year or so. They should see that they cannot win. They may be, at least a bit, behind a lot of these protests on US streets and EU cities trying to win hearts and minds but Trump is having none of it for now. He sees the moment to pressure them. When it’s over, whichever way it breaks, he may very well turn around and push Israel and the Palestinians into a deal both of them will hate, too.


27 posted on 05/08/2025 11:59:13 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ComputerGuy
Saddam was keeping Iran's attention until we took him out for the mullahs. Once that Iranian genie was out of the bottle it was downhill from there.

I'd like to see if a US backed, Iranian "uprising" could take out the mullahs before we bomb them off the face of the earth.

28 posted on 05/08/2025 12:22:11 PM PDT by Paco
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To: Racketeer

Sounds reasonable to me.

Although, Iran could make a counter offer to end the religious theology government, try as terrorists and execute their Republican Guard. Adopt a strict Constitution that precludes any foreign military action (aka Japan’s) and commits to absolute democratic elections.

I think that the leaders would prefer Trump’s approach.


29 posted on 05/08/2025 12:52:35 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: monkeyshine

Didn’t Pakistan fund and house Bin Laden? How can you get more extreme than that?

Here is the problem with your dismissal. The population total is the target and intent. Not counter force. Counter people, and you do that with ground bursts. Plutonium ground bursts, with prevailing winds from the west, blowing into India, killing the 1.5B people there, then the few million in Hong Kong (latitude looks south of the big China centers like Shanghai) and then across the Pacific to the southern US, which we would simply have to evacuate.

The nuclear thinkers have become far to content with presumptions of airbursts. Absolutely not the optimal targeting profile for Pakistan. They want ground bursts along India’s western border, blowing east.

India will retaliate, but they are Muslims. Dying just means they are martyr’ed.


30 posted on 05/08/2025 12:56:20 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen

BTW, the areas we have to evacuate . . . that’s our oil supply.


31 posted on 05/08/2025 12:57:29 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Racketeer

The MULLAH’s will string Trump along.
Just as Putin and Zelensky have in YouCrayne.


32 posted on 05/08/2025 5:05:29 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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