Sen. Tom Cotton: Sec Defense confirms Iran advancing toward nuclear weapon

Insider Paper ^ | 6/11/2025 | Brendan Taylor

[marcusmaximus]

Senator Tom Cotton stated on social media platform X that the Secretary of Defense confirmed Iran is actively working toward developing a nuclear weapon. Cotton described Iran’s government as a “terrorist regime” and warned that its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to U.S. national security, allies, and regional stability. He emphasized that such a development must not be allowed to occur.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: ayatollahkhamenei; iran; irgc; masoudpezeshkian; qudsforce

[OKSooner]

Uh oh...

Those guys need to really be sure... they won’t know until it’s too late.

[DesertRhino]

Ok, so then.. the situation is the same as it’s been for the last 20 years? Thanks Tom Cotton, closet homo and out of the closet neocon who wants Hegseth’s job.

Any day now... they’ll get one bomb, or maybe 2 or 3.

Got it.

[airborne]

🎶 Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran 🎵

[dljordan]

Here we go.

[Macho MAGA Man]

This Tom Cotton guy, I don’t trust him!

[Macho MAGA Man]

This Tom Cotton guy, I don’t trust him!

[popdonnelly]

So what will we do about it? Or do we lack the will and the intelligence to do anything?

[jacknhoo]

I don’t care for Tom Cotton, he’s telling us the past though. We’re a day late and a dollar short.

[popdonnelly]

Okay.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Israel was going to do the job in 2014 but Obama threatened to shoot Israeli planes out of the air.

[nitzy]

They are literally months away (like they have been since the 1990’s)

[nitzy]

[marcusmaximus]

U.S. just rushed an AWACS and other surveillance aircraft to the area. Something’s up.

[Nextrush]

Let the Masterhating continue.

[sockmonkey]

If I could subtract a year of my age for every time I’ve heard Iran is months, weeks, days, from having a nuclear weapon I would be in my Mother’s womb.

[Romulus]

Let Israel handle it if they care so much about it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They have been days away for decades.

[shanover]

It’s a trap. Stay away from the Iran garbage. Let Israel do it it they want.

[chopperk]

Time to take out Iran’s nuke mfg facilities.