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.
Pretty much means they’ve already done it.
Did the Iranians remind Blinken to tell Biden thanks for the $250 billion?
This is garbage. They already have the material. They are making the delivery system.
If you were wondering about an October surprise…here it is.
Our government has been complicit in this whole thing. They are evil.
It seems every four years people start with the, “They are gonna cancel the elections.”
It happens no matter who is in office.
We should just ignore it.
We’ve been hearing that for at least ten years. I’m sure they have achieved it already.
Iran is not suicidal.
They know if they nuke Israel they are radioactive dust, that Israel has many ways to end them.
Why are the people who have actively funded the Iranian nuclear weapons program and given moral...if not technical support to them, now trying to scare the American public about the threat they helped create? Could it be that they are going to try and sell Joe as the democrats as the only ones to deal with the threat? It is to laugh!!
It doesn't take a very long memory to remember that all of the increased hostility in the world, especially Iran, is courtesy of the Obama/Biden/Democrat/Left wing Media.
I don’t know.
We never expected all this insanity, did we, brother....
I figure they’ve been “one or two weeks away” for at least a decade now.
Producing the fissile material is not the problem. It is overcoming “the klystron problem”. A low grade klystron will work, but it takes a LOT more fissile material and means the bomb must be a LOT larger and heavier.
A klystron is the “heart” of a weapon, and the more accurately it can detonate the explosive that blast the fissile material together, the larger the yield of the blast.
This matters because the bomb must be moved to its target, and very few missiles, for example, can carry 5 tons of payload (10,000 lbs).
And then there is the Overkill problem. Most people misunderstand Overkill. It is best described as the nuclear missile weapon failure rate. The US has one of the best Overkill in the world, estimating about 40-50% of our launches detonate on their target. Nobody else comes close.
Is there a minimal size for a nuke? Could Iran create 5lbs payloads?
We’ve got Deep State.
Who needs mullahs?!
Thanks for the Warning Ahole
Using VOA to make the Zombie seem needed only results in knowing Joe gotta go so TrumpII can greenlight zotting more mullah generals.
No, I don’t think we did.
I DO NOT TRUST BLINKEN AS FAR AS I CAN THROW MY 4 HORSE TRAILER...IT weighs over 2 tons. DEAD EMPTY
Iran is going to have to nuke Israel before the election. They don’t want Trump making decisions as to whether or not they wish to exist as a sheet of glass.
Iran doesn’t survive nuking Israel. Period.
This does not need to be explained to them again. I am no fan of Iran. I think their religious zealotry is silly. But they are not stupid.
They will nuke the Indian Ocean or a part of the Iranian desert. Then they “join the club.” That will be a sad day.
Uranium/Plutonium are very dense. 5 pounds would not be THAT big.
Uranium/Plutonium are very dense. 5 pounds would not be THAT big.
The New Mexico bomb had 64 kg of material. Only about 1.2kg of that actually converted to energy. But the size of the first bombs was mostly the explosives they used to slam the material into each other to trigger the reaction. THAT is the tough part.
They probably already have. Why do I hear the theme song from Annie now? I am NOT doing a song parody! NO!
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