“Iran denies having any such intention”
Are we not entitled to judge, from the nature and function of their engineering facilities, their intentions?
If everywhere else in the known universe such facilities are 100% associated with nuclear weapons development, why should we believe the Iranian theocracy when they claim otherwise?
That’s Obama-Biden Era lunacy. Trump is right to act accordingly.
Now that Trump has re-established direct and reasonably cordial communications with Putin, he should call him and ask: Vlad—are you that stupid, or, how stupid do you think I am?
Putin will probably laugh and say something like: Don, we haven’t got many friends these days. Can you just let me slide on this one?
Desperate people in Russia might very well trade lethal technology that they aren’t and can’t use in their war for something they can use. The Russians have such technology in useless abundance, and the Iranians have the more usable technology in the thousands.
So far, most parties with access to civilization destroying technology have acted in their own long-term interest. But looking at desperate situations, like the impending fall of Berlin at the end of WWII, does anyone think the Germans wouldn’t have used whatever they could have gotten regardless of its civilization ending potential? There is only one think that’s important to a dying dictator and it’s not the health and welfare of future generations.