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Experts warn Trump administration any Iran deal must close plutonium pathway to nuclear bombs
Fox News ^ | May 9, 2026 | Benjamin Weinthal

Posted on 05/09/2026 2:24:56 PM PDT by McGruff

Nuclear weapons experts are raising the alarm bells over the pressing need for the Trump administration to codify in any new deal a ban on Iran’s attempts to use plutonium from its facilities to build an atomic bomb.

The administration and non-proliferation experts have largely focused on the Islamic Republic’s atomic weapons facilities that use uranium as the material for building nuclear bombs. Tehran could take advantage of this blind spot and covertly build a plutonium-based nuclear weapon.

Jason Brodsky, policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), told Fox News Digital: "I do believe any proposed deal with Iran needs to address the plutonium pathway to nuclear weapons. Israel struck the Arak heavy water reactor twice over the last year — in June 2025 and in March 2026. Intelligence suggested Iran had repeatedly attempted to reconstruct the facility even after the bombing, so any deal with Iran should cover the plutonium pathway."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; War
KEYWORDS: armchairadmirals; armchairgeneralsoffr; expurts; habitualcomplainers; habitualcomplaining; iran; nukes; plutonium; xperts

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1 posted on 05/09/2026 2:24:56 PM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 05/09/2026 2:26:54 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Can’t get plutonium without uranium.

Any deal to stop Iran from nuclear capabilities must first be no uranium.


3 posted on 05/09/2026 2:33:20 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: McGruff

Didn’t the CIA leak yesterday say the Iranians had no nuclear ambitions?


4 posted on 05/09/2026 2:34:53 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: McGruff

Experts? Fox News?

They’re trying to get out ahead of Trump now?


5 posted on 05/09/2026 2:48:46 PM PDT by stanne
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To: McGruff

“Experts” aka another ahole with an opinion...


6 posted on 05/09/2026 3:12:51 PM PDT by SteveinSATX (Anti-liberalism 24/7)
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To: McGruff

Looks like United Against Nuclear Iran is a pop-up think tank whose chairman is Jeb Bush with a roster of other neo-liberal has beens.


7 posted on 05/09/2026 3:16:52 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: McGruff

Who are these so called “experts”? Schiff? Graham? Pelosi? Obamalamadingdong?


8 posted on 05/09/2026 3:17:39 PM PDT by albie
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To: albie

Don’t forget AOC (Sandy Cortez). She’s an espert at everything that involves Margaritas and Tacos.


9 posted on 05/09/2026 3:39:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember, King Hakeem and his butt buddy, Schumer are still going to try to reopen the border.)
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To: McGruff

How long does Trump plan on dragging this out? I had to fill up my car today.$4.99 a gallon.


10 posted on 05/09/2026 3:46:45 PM PDT by roving
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Russians are supposed to take the spent fuel from the Bushehr reactor. If they don’t then, yeah, that would be a source of plutonium. But supposedly we knocked out the Iran PUREX facility so it would seem to take awhile anyway.


11 posted on 05/09/2026 4:28:51 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: McGruff

I do hope all this negotiating with Iran by Trump is just a deliberate distraction while we’re arming Iranian opposition groups, behind the scenes. Ultimately the only long term solution to the Iranian problem is a complete and total regime change.


12 posted on 05/09/2026 7:52:13 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: McGruff

We need to strip Israel of its nuclear weapons, THEY are the existential threat to peace in this current era.


13 posted on 05/09/2026 8:17:35 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: Glad2bnuts

Genesis 12:3
New King James Version
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

You can take your neo-Nazi anti-Semetic crap and shove it where the sun don’t shine.


14 posted on 05/09/2026 8:40:17 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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