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Blinken: Iran one-two weeks away from producing enough material for nuclear weapon
And who enabled them to get there, pray tell? [IsraelTimes] Top diplomat stresses Tehran has not yet produced a nuke, which would take longer; urges Iran to ‘pull back on work it’s been doing,’ says US ‘maximizing pressure across the board’US Secretary of State Antony Blinken  ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...on Friday warned Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate can now produce the necessary fissile material for an atomic bomb in as little as a week or two, but has yet to take steps to assemble a weapon. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Blinken indicated he was not optimistic about the chances for reform in Iran despite the recent election of a relatively more moderate candidate, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> is still the one who "calls the shots." Ya think?? The man’s a genius! "When this administration came in, we tried to pursue again, nuclear diplomacy with Iran, because if you could at least take one problem off the board, which is Iran potentially with a nuclear weapon, that’s inherently a good thing," he said.*Insert really, really rude comment here, using words I still don’t know* Blinken blasted Donald Trump...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, which the former president defended in his speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday night, saying Tehran "was broke" when he was in office but is now "very close to having a nuclear weapon." Blinken, however, seemed to argue it was Trump’s approach that led to Iran being on the cusp of nuclear breakout capabilities. That’s a really large load of really stinky fecal matter. "Instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, it is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that," he said, clarifying that Iran has not yet produced a weapon itself, which would take far more time.They already have the missiles to carry the warheads, so it won’t be as long as all that, especially given they have North Korean and Russian help. Blinken reiterated that the US would not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, adding the administration still prefers a diplomatic route to preventing this scenario."What we need to see, if Iran is serious about engaging, is actually pulling back on the work that it’s been doing on his program." Why would you imagine such a thing is even possible? "Second, we have been maximizing pressure on Iran across the board. We’ve imposed more than 600 sanctions on Iranian persons and entities. We haven’t lifted a single sanction," he asserted.But first you gave them billions and removed all the old sanctions. Since the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers following the US’s unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018, Iran has pursued nuclear enrichment just below weapons-grade levels. Western powers say there is no credible civilian reason for that. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful, but officials have recently said the Islamic republic could change its "nuclear doctrine" if it is attacked or its existence is seen as threatened by Israel. That has prompted alarm at the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency and in Western capitals.Reports last month before the presidential election indicated Iran’s leadership was considering whether to go ahead with producing a nuclear weapon. Iranian president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, who Blinken referred to Friday, has called for "constructive relations" with Western countries to "get Iran out of its isolation" and favors reviving the 2015 deal. …a “deal” — a word to provide cover for a treaty negotiated between the Mad Mullahs and the Obama administration that they had no intention of submitting to the Senate for the legally required validation — designed by the Obama administration to give Iran cover while they secretly worked toward nuclear weapons. Amid recent concerns, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was said to reestablish a series of working groups last month to deal with Iran’s nuclear program.Posted by: trailing wife 2024-07-20 |
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