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Iran Has Enough Highly Enriched Uranium for Six Nuclear Weapons
MSN | WSJ ^ | 02/26/2025 | Laurence Norman

Posted on 02/26/2025 8:03:40 AM PST by BenLurkin

VIENNA—Iran has sharply increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in recent weeks, according to a confidential United Nations report, as Tehran amasses a critical raw material for atomic weapons.

The increase in Iran’s holdings of uranium enriched to 60%, or nearly weapons grade, gives it enough to produce six nuclear weapons.

Iran is now producing enough fissile material in a month for one nuclear weapon, according to the report, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: enricheduranium; iran; nuclearweapons
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1 posted on 02/26/2025 8:03:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Iran has had enough material to make a working device for some time.


2 posted on 02/26/2025 8:05:25 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: rdcbn1

and Saddam has weapons of mass destruction.


3 posted on 02/26/2025 8:07:52 AM PST by algore
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To: BenLurkin

As they have been saying for ages….the issue is the delivery system.

Getting the materials to implode on a target is the key. I guess you could make a bomb and deliver it in a truck or ship. But it is likely that the radiation coming from it would be noticeable from a distance.

Certainly, Iranian missile tech is not at the stage to deliver this kind of weapon.

I would be most concerned with some type of dirty bomb delivered in a container.

In any event, it appears that the increased stories about this stuff portend an attack by Israel or the US. My concern there is that a bunker buster bomb is going to create a dirty bomb effect in some Iranian city. That kind of mistake would backfire on Israel.


4 posted on 02/26/2025 8:10:03 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin

More warmongering from the WSJ. Iran does not want a nuke! WSJ is just another Never Trumper neocon rag trying sell weapons for its MIC masters.

Trump will broker an Israeli/Iranian deal. The WSJ can’t accept that prospect.


5 posted on 02/26/2025 8:11:10 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: BenLurkin
in recent weeks,

Blaming Trump.

6 posted on 02/26/2025 8:11:21 AM PST by Falcon4.0
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To: BenLurkin

Six Nuclear Weapons

1. Tel Aviv
2. Tel Aviv - just to be sure
3. Rome
4. Rome - just to be sure
5. NYC
6. Chicago


7 posted on 02/26/2025 8:12:47 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

Gee, thanks, Obama.


8 posted on 02/26/2025 8:14:52 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ll bet Mossad has an eyeball on this, shouldn’t be long now.


9 posted on 02/26/2025 8:17:08 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: rdcbn1
Iran has had enough material to make a working device for some time.

I suspect you are right. I also suspect the Iranian facilities are so far underground that even a bunker-buster bomb wouldn't destroy them.

10 posted on 02/26/2025 8:17:32 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: hardspunned
"Iran does not want a nuke!"

Why, they wouldn't take one if you gave it to them! They just want to focus on more conventional explosive devices.

11 posted on 02/26/2025 8:22:43 AM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: BenLurkin
"The increase in Iran’s holdings of uranium enriched to 60%, or nearly weapons grade"

Weapons-grade uranium is at least 90%-enriched U-235.

12 posted on 02/26/2025 8:24:43 AM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: PIF

Tel Aviv is the only one in range...maybe.
Their short range missiles don’t have the capacity to lift a warhead.


13 posted on 02/26/2025 8:27:50 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Flag_This
Give them some daisy cutters but deliver them from a safe altitude.


14 posted on 02/26/2025 8:34:09 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: BenLurkin

If an Iranian leader has the bomb and doesn’t immediately use it, he’ll likely be murdered and replaced by someone who will use it. The anti Israeli and American propaganda has created a beast even the creators can’t manage.


15 posted on 02/26/2025 8:34:18 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Vermont Lt
I would be most concerned with some type of dirty bomb delivered in a container.

Possible but if that was their main goal they wouldn't bother enriching U235 content.
16 posted on 02/26/2025 8:37:21 AM PST by posterchild
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To: equaviator
C-130 rollin' down the strip.
Airborne MOAB gonna take a little trip.
17 posted on 02/26/2025 8:39:41 AM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: rdcbn1

60% will not go boom. Cannot.


18 posted on 02/26/2025 8:53:19 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: algore

“...and Saddam has weapons of mass destruction...

You’re right, he did. And he used them.

wy69


19 posted on 02/26/2025 9:00:15 AM PST by whitney69
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Well, lets give them a 7th, special delivery, and watch them all go off together.


20 posted on 02/26/2025 9:19:33 AM PST by curious7
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