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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All according to plan.
Plan? You mean ship them Billions in cash and let them do whatever they wamt if only they will agree to take even more cash? I guess that’s a plan, but sure doesn’t seem like a sound one.
Rat Party Headquarters wants the mullahs to have a nuke.Can’t have an outlaw nation like Israel unchecked!
Exactly. When people tell you, over decades, they want to kill you and destroy your country, you should believe them.
All part of the Barack Obama plan to reduce American power and destabilize pax Americana.
Exactly! Obama wanted the Iranians to get the bomb. Biden is doing his bidding to complete the job.
Does any sane person ever think Israel will let Iran get the bomb?
Duh...........
Iran has been using its surrogates, including psyops here in the U.S., to keep Israel’s focus on them and not Iran. Wouldn’t be interesting if Israel took them out and foiled their plans?
Israel to act soon.
Luckily they’ve been within months of having the bomb for about 15 years now
BiBi will step up,
But this ain’t looking good.
People speak of a black swan…If Iran sets off a nuke, that would stop the world in its tracks.
The regime has been saying Iran is weeks away from a nuke since at least 2010.
Fortunately, the Iranian sleeper cells will detonate their first nuke, NOT on Israel but on Washington DC. As a bonus, Obama’s mansion will be sent on a one-way train ticket to hell. /spit
Another tragic duh.
What, other than pure evil, can explain the Democrat love for nuclear Iran. They can’t be that stupid, can they?
“Biden’s Iran de-escalation strategy”
Sending them billions and billions of dollars is a “de-escalation strategy”? Who writes this crap? Does anybody actually believe this crap?
They are not going to be able to prevent it, long term.
Iran has 350,000 STEM graduates per year (more than Germany). Iran has domestic uranium deposits.
Israel has to figure out how they are going to live with an Iranian bomb, because that day is coming.
By now perhaps they have several. There has been plenty of time for that.
How exactly did India and Pakistan get nuclear weapons? How did North Korea get them? How did Israel get them?
It is apparently not that difficult. The original success was with 1940's technology. Modern equipment makes the isotope separation much easier than it was in the 1940's. A number of workable bomb designs are well-known.
Iran has engineers who are at least as good if not better than the Pakistanis or the Indians. Whatever could be holding up the Iranians from joining the club?
Could it be the Russians are not all that enthusiastic about the Iranian project?
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