Posted on 01/14/2024 4:29:49 PM PST by Libloather
JERUSALEM – Top Iran experts in the U.S. and in Israel are warning President Biden that his administration’s strategy of de-escalation and containment targeting the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism – the Islamic Republic of Iran – has failed and America needs to reestablish deterrence against Tehran as fears of the regime obtaining a nuclear device grow.
Alarming reports about Iran moving at an astonishingly fast pace to possess a nuclear weapon have emerged since last month.
In December, Reuters reported that a confidential IAEA report released to member states said it had "increased its production of highly enriched uranium, reversing a previous output reduction from mid-2023." Reuters also said in its report "that Iran is enriching to up to 60%, close to the roughly 90% that is weapons grade, at its Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) in its sprawling Natanz complex and at its Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), which is dug into a mountain."
In a report titled "How quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons today?" published earlier this month by David Albright, a physicist and founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security, stated, "The long pole in the tent of building nuclear weapons is essentially complete. Iran can quickly make enough weapon-grade uranium for many nuclear weapons, something it could not do in 2003." Albright said Iran had a "crash nuclear weapons program" up until 2003, which it then changed to a "more dispersed nuclear weapons effort."
In his report, Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, wrote, "Today, it would need only about a week to produce enough for its first nuclear weapon. It could have enough weapon-grade uranium for six weapons in one month, and after five months of producing weapon-grade uranium, it could have enough for 12."
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Yeah
That’s actually true
Ezekiel 38 will definitely happen
It could be detonated anywhere in the world, on allies of the USA. Perhaps Rome/Vatican City. As a message to Christians.
The whole world is a house of cards on fire.
Right. Trying to get our facial muscles into the “shocked” mode but we can’t do it.
Certainly from your perspective, but it is sometimes necessary to think about the situation from the viewpoint of the other party.
Iran de-escalation strategy backfiring as regime close to producing (another) atomic bomb
Anyone who thinks they don’t already have multiple nuclear weapons is lying to themselves.
And when they get one and set it off, nobody in Congress will have the gonads to charge that scumbag with treason
They use the same logic when it comes to energy. “Shutting down coal mines, oil drilling, will create more jobs” Huh? Maybe more jobs for unemployment agents.
"Jobs" are easy to create. Have on group dig holes. Have the next group fill them in.
Jobs which are productive, more productive than those which already exist, that is another matter altogether.
Yeah, that plan. Right up there with 'cut and run' in Afghanistan leaving billions of dollars worth of weapons for our enemies or draining out our petroleum reserves - or leaving our borders wide open...
sure doesn’t seem like a sound one.
Agree its like when Clinton sent a reactor for lights in north Korea.
Democrats take the hook every time.
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