Posted on 02/03/2022 10:30:27 PM PST by algore
Iran's nuclear program is on the verge of producing enough fuel for a nuclear bomb in just a matter of weeks and could have a device built in less than a year, US officials estimate.
Iran's 'breakout time' - the time it would take to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for one nuclear weapon - has advanced greatly after Donald Trump withdrew the US from a deal with the country in 2018, officials claim.
The breakout time is different from the time it would take Iran to build a nuclear weapon. Western officials believe Iran hasn't quite figured out how to build the core of a bomb and attach a warhead to a missile.
But the reduced breakout time is significantly lower than the 12-month period that formed the basis of the nuclear deal signed by President Barack Obama in 2015.
The 12-month breakout time was key to the 2015 deal Iran reached with the U.S. and other powers, although it isn’t mentioned explicitly in the accord.
The time frame was based on whether Iran violated the restraints imposed by the deal, giving the U.S. and its allies time to respond.
The Trump administration pulled out of the pact in 2018 and re-imposed sweeping sanctions on Tehran, calling Obama's deal weak. Since then, Iran has accelerated its nuclear program, reducing its breakout time to a few weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported.
US officials believe a breakout period shorter than six months wouldn't give the US enough time to respond if Iran decided to ramp up its nuclear program.
The State Department declined to comment on the breakout assessments, saying the administration is confident a deal 'would address our urgent nonproliferation concerns.'
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They do not want a war with Iran. They want to restore the Obama Iran Deal that was a payoff to Democrats in return for Iran's ability to access Western markets.
Always seeking to blame Trump
And of course the billion in cash didn’t help
Sounds like what Kanzius invented. Don’t forget to add “cures cancer” to the list of things it can do.
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-11/turning-water-fuel/
Yes, they try to focus our attention on these dumps far away where nothing can be independently verified while we ignore very real and pressing problems within our own country, states, and municipalities. As long as we have an open border, rampant crime, and government overreach with the virus WE CREATED, I don’t lose sleep over what happens in Iran, North Korea, Russia, Red China, etc..
They already have 4 nukes. When they have 12 it’s go time.
Sounds like the ayatollah is getting closer to a horrible accident.
I worry about all of it. There is so much instability and geopolitical aggression in the world right now, and a weakened USA run by feckless political cronies makes it even more dangerous.
I’ll take a prop bet for $1000.
There will be an accident at the facility and for a parlay bet, all the engineers, technicians, supervisors and physicist will have health problems that are fatal.
Like heart attacks, cancers, cellphone bombs, strangling, suicide.
Iran is going to learn that having one or two devices make you a target and not a super power.
So basically it’s Trump’s fault... Got it.
Already did.
We are down to weeks?
I firmly believe that when it gets remotely close to weeks the Israeli Air Force will put them out of business.
Now we have Russia, Russia, russsia, Ukraine, North Korea, and Iran rattling sabres. China will gear up in two weeks.
Joe’s foreign policy experience is really gleaming these days.
They were saying this 10 years ago. 🙄
The Iran game the Biden administration is alrady over but they keep trying to play
The coalition of Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE are now the force actually afflicting mortal and existential force on the Iranian nuclear program. Trump formed the coalition, and they reject Biden as irrelevant
Time for their facility to have a nuclear “accident”. Maybe Mossad can pull one off.
pallets of money. There’s already a proxy war in Yemen.
I read that as “grow tits in a field”.
I think it’s time to at least plant a garden.
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