Posted on 04/02/2024 7:58:01 AM PDT by daniel1212
In an alarming development, Ali-Akbar Salehi, the former head of Iran's nuclear agency has implied in remarks broadcast on Monday that Iran has everything it needs for an A-bomb.
In a televised interview, Salehi, who was also foreign minister (2010-2013), was asked if Iran has achieved the capability of developing a nuclear bomb. Avoiding a direct answer he stated, "We have [crossed] all the thresholds of nuclear science and technology. Here's an example: Imagine what a car needs; it needs a chassis, an engine, a steering wheel, a gearbox. You're asking if we've made the gearbox, I say yes. Have we made the engine? Yes, but each one serves its own purpose," the senior regime insider said.
While Tehran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful, the regime has sped up its uranium enrichment to levels that serve no purpose other than building nuclear weapons.
This is not the first time that officials of the Islamic Republic have claimed to have the ability to build a nuclear bomb. In July 2022, Kamal Kharrazi,...said... "We have increased the level of uranium enrichment from 20 percent to 60 percent in just a few days, and it can easily be enriched to 90 percent," Kharrazi said, implying that Iran is very close to making nuclear weapons....
According to Al Jazeera, “a confidential IAEA report released last month indicated that Iran’s estimated stockpile of enriched uranium had reached more than 22 times the limit" set out in the 2015 JCPOA accord between Tehran and world powers.
In June 2022, Iran removed all IAEA surveillance and monitoring equipment, needed to monitor the implementation of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear accord from its nuclear installations and since March it agreed to put them back on operation, but it has been stonewalling the process ever since.
As soon as they get one, they will use it on Israel.
It will be just like giving the bomb to Hamas. Which is why Iran needs to never be allowed to have a bomb. BUT, Biden will allow it and do nothing.
Forecast for Qom, Iran: Temperature 2000+ degrees Fahrenheit, supersonic winds, mushroom cloud and heavy fallout.
Iran is close to getting nuked. It’s time for a peremptory strike.
They’ve been weeks away from developing their first nuke since 2005. I suspect what they’re really working on is the deniability problem.
Israel won’t allow it to happen.
If Iran uses such a weapon, Iran will cease to exist. And that right soon.
The technology needed to make a bomb is 80 years old and with enough highly enriched uranium a simple gun type device like the Hiroshima bomb could easily be made. I have always suspected that the Iranians having been working with the North Koreans in bomb development and an Iranian bomb design could also have been tested.
How much you want to bet Russia is helping them build it? How much will change if they have it? Nothing. They will not use it. Iran is a stable tyranny—they are not Jihadist. They will not bomb Israel. They will not build one bomb but a bunch of them. Only question—how to deliever it?
It only took the U.S. twenty-eight months to produce the first atomic bomb. Iran is either utterly incompetent, or they’re lying through their teeth as usual, and already have one.
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