In fact, what is there to negotiate at all?
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Posted on 06/06/2026 8:03:20 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
President Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to the national lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee on Thursday for consultations with a team of technical experts that could play a role in nuclear negotiations with Iran, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The White House is trying to reach a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran to end the war and begin in-depth nuclear negotiations, and wants to have experts at the ready should those talks be launched.
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The intrigue: Axios was alerted on Thursday to the fact that Witkoff had made an unannounced trip to eastern Tennessee. Two U.S. officials later confirmed he and Kushner were visiting Energy Department facilities at Oak Ridge.
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Driving the news: Witkoff and Kushner agreed terms with their Iranian counterparts last week on a 60-day MOU to extend the ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, allow Iran to sell oil and launch talks on Iran's enriched uranium stockpile and limitations on future enrichment.
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Zoom in: If the negotiations advance to the second phase, the team of experts that met with Witkoff and Kushner would have to develop a plan for the disposal of Iran's nuclear material, how to limit the enrichment program further, and how to verify compliance.
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Do they even have Q-level security clearances?
Kushner finished his last year at the Naval Academy in the hospital, in traction.
It’s up to you, but you might consider cutting him a little slack.
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There’s only so much that the US can do. It’s a physically small amount of dangerous material hidden away in a fairly large country. Anything less than a peace-loving Iranian government is going to carry risks.
With a hostile Iranian government, financial incentives will have to be the main tool.
My suggestion:
A dollar or dollar’s worth of impounded Iranian funds shall be released per tanker barrel of Kuwaiti/Saudi/Qatar/UAE oil that freely sails out by Gulf tanker and passes a point in the Indian Ocean at least 300 miles from the northern tip of Oman prior to December 1, 2025 EST.
Iran to be able to load at Kharg & export one barrel for every four exported by Arab nations listed above that freely sails out by Gulf tanker and passes a point in the Indian Ocean at least 300 miles from the northern tip of Oman, provided Iran ceases enrichment, stops nuclear usefulness centrifuge work, terminates nuclear reactor construction, and submits to IAEA inspection, to be cut in half if not to IAEA satisfaction.
Other releases of impounded Iranian funds:
$4 million per quarter (by US IRS standards) per kilogram of U-235 in 15%+ enriched uranium turned over (440kg of 60% - $3.96 billion/year) to be released on IRS estimated tax due dates, give or take two US federal business days.
per top model centrifuge turned over
$10 million first 500
$5 million all others
per previous production quality model turned over
one-fifth the amounts
The amount for a centrifuge to be cut by 40% for every full 14 calendar days dating from the time of agreement of its not being turned over.
The amount for a centrifuge to be additionally cut by 50% if repairable but inoperable and by 80% if junk.
$50 million/quarter if no attacks from Lebanon
$20 million/quarter if no attacks from Gaza
$100 million/quarter if Israel is not attacked
US military aircraft to leave Gulf Arab states no later the third midnight local time after 100kg by U-235 of 15%+ enriched uranium turned over.
Turn over to be under IAEA supervision to the PRC, India, EU or IAEA and only counted once it leaves Iranian control and territory/airspace/waters.
The Israelis can take out Iran’s oil and fertilizer industries, and will, if necessary.
WIKI
Q clearance or Q access authorization is the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance required to access Top Secret Restricted Data, Formerly Restricted Data, and National Security Information, as well as Secret Restricted Data. Restricted Data (RD) is defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and covers nuclear weapons and related materials. The lower-level L clearance is sufficient for access to Secret Formerly Restricted Data (FRD) and National Security Information, as well as Confidential Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data. Access to Restricted Data is granted on a need-to-know basis to personnel with appropriate clearances.
A Q Clearance is equivalent to a U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret clearance.
The QAnon conspiracy theory is named such because the 4chan and 8chan posters, who in 2017 created the persona behind the conspiracy theory, claim to be an individual with Q level security clearance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance
Where did you get that? His bio on wiki doesn’t mention that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Kushner
Not to be interpreted that I am in any way anti-Kushner!
Yes they thought it was above TS because it had the scary word “nuclear” in it.
Could be they were at ORNL to strategize how to thwart terrorist nuclear or dirty bomb attacks in the USA.
Nonsense. Even a few pounds (tens of kilograms) of enriched uranium or refined plutonium can be readily recycled from nuclear bomb source material into nuclear power lant pellets sufficient for reactivity. And at very little cost compared to mining and refining raw tons of uranium ore.
Ukrainian nuclear bomb material was smuggled out of Ukraine and directly into US power plant fuel.
The material in Iran MUST BE highly purified, highly refined and highly enriched already or it could not be usable for their nuclear bomb sources. (Refined, purified, and enriched are different, and all three are essential. )
No, they’re there because they have no clue about what they are negotiating about and are in deep over their heads.
Hardly sounds like a small quantiy to me. It's more than enough to cause devasting death & destruction on a rather massve scale.
Whie it pales in comparison to the quatities the superpowers posses, it puts Iran in the game, anfd the odds of them using them are significatnly higher than it is with the superpowers.
Screw it. I say let them have their nukes. Let them nuke us and Israel too.
Then nuke them until the entire area glows blue.
I grow tired of their boisterous posturing. Let’s f****g roll.
Rattler...you’re a snake...
I'm glad you're not the President.
Dear Lord I don’t want to invade Iran, but it is feelling like the only way we can extract that enriched uranium is to insert a significant military presence to hold a perimeter around the area while the materials is dug out, found, and then secured and removed.
It does not seem as if the Iranians will ever hand it over. We may have to go in and physically remove it.
I hope that doesn’t wind up being out only option but at this point, I am not seeing another way to retrieve it.
That is the inevitable last resort. We need to try and retrieve it ourselves first.
Do you even know what the expertise is of those reporting on the subject? Most liely the answer is no, because you would never question them at all, would you! Instead, because they are against Trump is all that you really care about.
The negotiating teams currently deaing with Iran rely on a knowledge base centered on advanced technical expertise in nuclear material production, centrifuge operations, and weaponization timelines rather than just diplomatic precedent. Because Iran has acquired significant operational experience and advanced machinery since 2015, experts emphasize that no deal can roll back Tehran's technical knowledge, making robust verification and monitoring the critical foundation for any agreement.
Technical Modeling and Breakout Analysis are essential components, with U.S. national laboratories performing sophisticated modeling to benchmark potential deals against Iran's current capabilities. The concept of "breakout time" (the time needed to produce enough material for one weapon) is being re-evaluated due to Iran's increased efficiency, requiring negotiators to understand how quickly Iran could enrich its existing stockpile to weapons-grade purity.
Verification Tools: The knowledge base includes advanced inspection technologies and data from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to detect undeclared activities and misuse of declared capabilities.
Stockpile Specifics: Negotiators must account for Iran's ~970 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%, which experts state could reach weapons-grade purity within days to weeks if further enriched.
Multinational Expertise: Effective negotiations leverage a coalition (including the E3, Russia, and China) that provides diverse technical insights on fuel cycles, reactor conversion, and sanctions enforcement.
Weaponization Experts: Teams include specialists who understand the steps required to convert enriched uranium gas into metal and assemble a warhead, ensuring constraints address the entire weaponization process.
Historical Precedents: Lessons from the 2015 JCPOA inform current strategies, particularly regarding the need for direct technical dialogue to resolve esoteric issues like reactor fuel specifications.
Lastly, what qualfications do you perceive that Obama's and Biden's negotiators expertise had? I would tend to say, not rerally very good, because they basically gave the Iranian regime free reign to develop thier nuclear program by siginificant amount, with zero ability to monitor their enrivhment program that was supposed to be limited to nuclear power reasons, not weaponss grade purposes.
But I never heard you complain about their negotiations, you TDS addled brain Trump hater.
Go bcak to your failed foolis attepts to support Ukraine, that helped make Zelenskyy and his cronies wealthy beyond control, with America's tax money that further placed this antions debt higher, and they also conspired with China to assist in the theft of the 202 election.
All things that you pea-sized brain apparebntly supports.
In fact, what is there to negotiate at all?
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I will only be satisfied when you, personally, are dying from radiation sickness.
You are the worst thing to ever happen to America, the world, and humanity.
Jesus hates you.
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