Posted on 06/20/2025 3:28:12 PM PDT by dennisw
Iran isn't cutting a US-brokered peace deal with Israel because its leaders are confident they can rebuild its nuclear program even if it's wiped out, a retired general says.
General Jack Keane, the former Vice Chief of Staff to the US Army, told Fox News that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei believes the country will be able to restart its hydrogen bomb with relative ease after the ongoing conflict with Israel ends.
The US has not joined the conflict. President Trump says he'll decide whether to do so in the next two weeks, after urging Iran to halt its nuclear bomb building.
'The nuclear enterprise is vast, and it is resilient,' Keane told Fox News. '(There are) multiple sites, centrifuges, so you can spin up enriched uranium.
'They did that to survive.'
Keane said the Ayatollah has 'never made a deal' because 'he has built an enterprise to survive an attack' that he believes is strong enough to withstand airstrikes even if President Trump decides to join the conflict.
The general said for Trump to succeed, he needs to 'take the whole enterprise down' and wipe out the nation's top leadership and military capabilities, after Israel significantly weakened Iran in recent weeks.
'Look, Israel have destroyed all 70 of their air defense batteries, all of them. Air force, gone. The 12 nuclear sites, damages or destroyed. Then, leadership (is) decapitated, military and nuclear scientists. They can replace nuclear scientists, but in the near term, major problem.'
Iran has long vowed to obliterate Israel at the first chance it gets, with Israeli intelligence beginning their bombing campaign earlier this month over fears leaders in Tehran were just months off completing a nuclear weapon.
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“’The nuclear enterprise is vast, and it is resilient,’ Keane told Fox News. ‘(There are) multiple sites, centrifuges, so you can spin up enriched uranium.”
Maybe it us and maybe it isn’t. I doubt Israel will believe anything anyone says and will just take out everything they know about.
Ultimately Israel will have to send in troops on the group to inspect what’s left of these known sites. The entrances will be covered in debris - not sure how they could figure out what’s left buried 300’ below.
I suspect they give it their best shot and then revisit the situation in a few years - rinse and repeat. I don’t see what Israel needs us to do beyond supplying weapons.
Bye bye Ayotallah!
He “reveals” or he “opines”?
Dead men don’t build bombs.
Well, I hate to say it but:
‘Trump to Ayotallah: “I a-tolla you”...
KaBOOM!
Keane’s been retired at least 10 years. His opinions are from secondary sources, at best. I’m not saying he’s wrong, but I’m not saying he’s right, either.
Two things.
1. Face value, bombs away and bye bye big mullah.
2. He wouldn’t say anything other than this publicly and behind the scenes he may be begging for his sorry life.
Why didn’t the Admin refill the SPR?
It all gets down to this; Mad Mo and all his followers, have been preaching kill the Jews, wherever you may find them, for 1,400 yrs. Nothing has changed with Islam. So, whether its the scum from Tehran or elsewhere in the muslim world, they, the muslims, will quietly stand behind whichever whack job has the resources to eventually build a nuclear bomb, or other weapon of mass destruction to be used for the elimination of the jewish people or the West in general. Remember, the koran, in their minds, is the literal word of G-d, and it cannot be changed or modified. So, the Jews and the Christians, and any other non-believer, are fair game for them. Islam is, was and will always be, bad news for anyone who isn’t one. Period. Just sayin’.
I detest it when writers - or anyone - plays games with the language by using words like "reveals" or "acknowledged" or "admits" for facts that are contested or disputed. It's such a cheap trick.
Trust the Science!
The administration needs to get a handle on this loose cannon. This guy is one of the worst talking heads around.
Iraq has yellowcake uranium, the government of Libya is engaging in a mass rape campaigns, the body count garbage during the Vietnam War(General McNamara etc)…..
You get it.
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Keene does not have anything to do with this administration-he is just out there making a buck blabbing on Fox or any other venue that will pay him for an appearance-nothing legal anyone can do to shut him up...
Iraq not only had yellowcake, they had 550 metric tons of it. How quickly people have forgotten the reporting by multiple news agencies that U.S. troops were protecting a site where Iraq had stockpiled 550 metric tons of the stuff, until it was eventually transported to Canada in a secret operation.
And before anyone starts ridiculing this, claiming it’s not true, here is the link to the story at none other than Army.mil:
https://www.army.mil/article/282413/retired_us_army_colonel_led_joint_task_force_that_safely_removed_tons_of_uranium_from_iraq
The “no WMD” nonsense, and especially all of the ridicule over the Bush administration statement that Saddam had sought yellowcake uranium in Africa, has driven me crazy for years. I couldn’t believe the constant refrain of “no yellowcake” from even conservatives who would have known better if they had merely paid a little attention. It became a mantra that was never true.
Sure, Saddam had not enriched it or built a bomb, but “no yellowcake?”…That was simply a ridiculous lie. 550 METRIC TONS of the stuff. NEVER forget that again.
The aystollah is an old man. He isn’t going to back down at this point. He’s going out in a blaze of glory to meet Allah. What we’re doing now is stage-setting, positioning assets, coordinating with IDF, making sure the B2s won’t be shot down, etc.
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