Posted on 07/19/2024 9:42:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Iran is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within "one or two weeks," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday.
News of Iran's capabilities follows the recent election of President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has said his goal is to "get Iran out of its isolation," and who favors reviving the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and global powers.
Blinken said that "what we've seen in the last weeks and months is an Iran that's actually moving forward" with its nuclear program.
The United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from the Iran nuclear deal, which was designed to regulate Iran's atomic activities in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions.
Speaking at a security forum in Colorado, Blinken blamed the collapse of the nuclear deal for the acceleration in Iran's capabilities.
"Instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, (Iran) is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that," Blinken said.
He added that Iran had not yet developed a nuclear weapon.
Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri told CNN earlier this week that his country remained committed to the deal, known as the JCPOA.
"We are still a member of JCPOA. America has not yet been able to return to the JCPOA, so the goal we are pursuing is the revival of the 2015 agreement," he said. "We are not looking for a new agreement."
Bagheri added that: "Neither I nor anyone else in Iran has not talked and will not talk about a new agreement. We have an agreement (signed) in 2015."
Blinken made the statement just days after reports emerged that the U.S. Secret Service increased security for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump weeks ago, after authorities learned of an alleged Iranian plot to kill him.
It’s always one or two weeks away.
It makes me wonder if they can do it at all.
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Thank you democrats.
Don’t say thanks Joe Biden because he may not be the nominee.
Staff saying should we wake the President?
My adaptation of the novel Shall We Tell the President.
Synopsis:
A 1977 novel by English author Jeffrey Archer. In the first edition, a plot to kill President Edward Kennedy, is foiled by an FBI agent Mark Andrews working with the head of the FBI.
From what I’ve read the actual construction is rather straightforward, though the size could be an impediment. Acquiring the critical nuclear material was what took Oppenheimer & Co three years.
Let’s not dare them. I agree that Iranian rumor has been around for a long time but with Obama and Biden money they have the expert help and the labs to someday make this happen.
I would hope Israel would arrange for “accidents” and “fire in the research building” as in the past. Or else we will have election complication of Israel using the bomb Golda Meier considered using way back when.
“In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Arab forces were overwhelming Israeli forces and Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert and ordered 13 atomic bombs be readied for use by missiles and aircraft. When her PM said to authorize the strike Meir told him to “forget it.” Times of Israel.
If they are saying one to two weeks it means they have it that plus the Houthi’s targeting Tel Aviv we are in a world of trouble
We’ve been hearing things similar to this for years.
Search “Iran is close to making nuclear weapons” since the year 1980 and you will see this a dozen times every year
Whistling past the graveyard. They only say that now because it has already been done and they don’t want us to think they were surprised when they drop the bomb. Iran has been doing this since Clinton was president and if anyone thinks that they haven’t made any progress is hiding their head in the sand. It’s like the way bees make honey: very tiny bits at a time. But after a few million trips of almost undetectable amounts, next time you look they have gallons.
With the CIA’s help, it will ready to test on Nov. 6. They will have almost 2 months of a free hand to “fix” things if the election goes south on them.
Iran HAS nuclear weapons.
Just say it got it ok?
Jeeez
So sick of this crap
Thanks guys...
Iran probably has like 50 bombs by now.
So sick of these ridiculous games being played against a mostly ignorant naive public.
FU blinken
Shut the hell up. There is nothing that Iran can do that will mater. Idiots!
They can muddy the election waters and delay an election if a nuclear weapon is used. Then the Regime can remove the puppet. You will hear the Hur tape which is what they hold over the puppet’s head.
Thanks Biden...
But can Iran build a working bomb without testing one first?
They could nuke Israel and start the mother of all wars...
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