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.
well as long as we didn’t wait too long :)
ive NEVER HEARD 1 or 2 weeks before. Are you sure you read that in the past?
i’ve never heard a few weeks
Maybe they are planning a war to get biden’s ratings up
They are always close to producing uranium, unless we pay them billions not to. How long has it been since Iran was ever so close to producing uranium unless we pay them off?
Yeah. No thanks to your boss, you idiots.
Why does a country, a major oil producer and exporter need nuclear power?
sheesh they said the same thing like 5 years ago
Voting occurred during the Civil War.
Congratulations to Biden/Obama/Blinken for this wonderful accomplishment of protecting and financing the development of nuclear bombs with which the Iranian despots plan to destroy America and the West. Remembering that USA is their oft-stated Primary Target (the mideast only being number 2 on their Hit List)
... I’d move the heck out of at least the 7 or 8 large cities they’ve listed as their first-strike targets.
There are many many nice smaller communities in the midwest and south. Start looking soon!
And Blinken and Biden gave them the money to do it.
One last attempt to keep Biden in office as a ... war time President.
Some day, they will get the bomb on this current trajectory.
Question is, is this their October Surprise? Sounds like a good candidate, wouldn't put it past em.
Hammer Squadron?
Blinken, then why did you and your predecessor idiots give billions of dollars in cash to Iran? You wanted the mullahs to blow up the entire world?
Idjit.
Yes, almost as clockwork as the ooops it’s um October and the federal checkbook needs a massive taxpayer deposit. It’s not because it’s near Christmas and the grandma parade can’t buy her grandchildren presents.
I mean at the end of the day… SS is present money.
Yep... it’s been 1 to 2 weeks away for several years now. I’m surprised Biden doesn’t just give them several nuclear weapons from our stockpile. Would have been cheaper than the billions he’s given them.
Sec. Blinken, if you think Iran would not go ahead and develop nukes under the 2015 agreement, you are even less competent than SS Director Cheatle.
Curious, however, that President Masoud Pezeshkian feels Iran is “isolated” when Iran supposedly has so much cooperation with Russia, China, the “global South”, etc. I guess all those friends must not be working out so well?
Let’s see:
The automatic, knee-jerk, reflex statement by US administrations since about 1979-2024 has been...”we will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear bomb”.
All hollow statements designed to calm our allies in the region for decades. Even though Israel has been warning the West about Iran, their pleadings about Saddam Hussein’s bomb also fell on deaf ears until 1981. Then Israel was condemned for taking out his facility. Ten years later the US coalition was able to invade a nuclear free Iraq thanks to the Israelis.
In 2007, the Israelis destroyed Assad’s nuclear facility in Syria.
Why is it that the world ignores the coming Iranian global threat with nuclear weapons?
Once again, Israel’s Netanyahu has been trying to inform the West about Iran but it is a ho-hum global response. Why?
All talk no action.
IMHO, Iran has the bomb, many bombs. Now they are working on drones that will deliver those bombs, making the drone powerful enough and the bombs small enough.
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