Given Biden’s weakness, however, that decision is not likely to go in our favor. Weakness invites aggression.
“Khamenei adviser says Iran ‘capable of building nuclear bomb,'” France 24, July 17, 2022:
Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build it, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told Al Jazeera’s Arabic service on Sunday.
Tehran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb but has yet to decide whether to build one, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told Al Jazeera’s Arabic service on Sunday.
“In a few days we were able to enrich uranium up to 60% and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium … Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one,” Kamal Kharrazi said….
Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons, saying it is refining uranium only for civilian energy uses, and has said its breaches of the international deal are reversible if the United States lifts sanctions and rejoins the agreement….
Kharrazi said Tehran would never negotiate over its missile programme and regional policy, as demanded by the West and its allies in the Middle East.
CogitoErgoSum says
I still say they should emulate their prophet and eat some poison when they get to be about 60 and go to their reward as he did. Leave the rest of us out of it.
mortimer says
While you are wishing them ill, the mullahocracy is actively thinking of ways to poison Israel and the USA.
These fanatics are ready to start WWIII. They have no pity for their own people. They have none for the rest of the planet.
Allah will sort out who goes to jannah after the Nuclear Holocaust they start.
CogitoErgoSum says
Wishing them a short life and a death similar to that of Muhammad is not wising them ill. I think most of them would prefer that I wish that for them than a merry Christmas. The only way I can improve upon that is if I were to give the poison to them myself so they could claim martyrdom. How could they not view that as the best gift of all?
mortimer says
When the Iranian people rise up, many mullahs will swing from the lampposts.
Those kleptocrats are virtually without empathy … sociopaths. The top mullahs are similar to Hitler’s henchmen, only with different uniforms.
Three dictators trying desperately to cling to power.
Tony Naim says
Twelver Shi’a Muslims firmly believe, the destruction of Israel is a prelude to the return of their lost Imam- the Mehdi.
They are hell bent on hurting Israel. They have no respect for human life. They will not hesitate to drag Israel into war, one that will impact a large toll in terms of human loss on their own army ( and the Shi’a militias they control and subsidize), but as long as they are able to kill Jews in large numbers. They will consider it a win.
They think they have a demographic advantage, hence no consideration whatsoever to loss of human life, even if it’s their own. This is a crowd of medieval theocratic savages soon to acquire nuclear weapons!!!
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Tony.
mortimer says
Kamal Kharazi said, “…there has been no decision by Iran to build one (a bomb)’.
Do you believe that? I don’t.
The Shi’ites are the past masters of TAQIYYA … sacred prevarication.
Deceiving the kafir is COMPULSORY in Islam if that is the best way to accomplish an objective of JIHAD.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
‘Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one’
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This is probably not true now–but with Biden and the IAEA enabling them, it may well be true soon…
Westman says
“The mechanical design of building a nuke is not a problem today, the basic principles are well known and available, but getting the materials, that is another thing. It’s not like there is a Fissionable Products Aisle at Home Depot you can go to or order it from Amazon,(maybe in Pakistan?). ”
https://sofrep.com/news/college-kid-designs-an-atomic-bomb-in-dorm-room/
Effective nuclear bomb designs, using public document information, have been done twice by typical university physics students.
When it comes to ME intellectual abilities, the Persians rank with the top(excluding Israel). They have built 6 generations of separation centrifuges, drones, missiles, etc. They are masters of shaped charge explosives – an absolute requirement to make a nuclear bomb.
If Pakistan can build a nuclear bomb how can it be beyond Iran’s capability?
Walter Sieruk says
So now ‘Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb..” That’s because of weak or evil ,Joe Biden, who is always “caving in ” to their demands and giving them everything they want.
OLD GUY says
It’s not just Biden it is the weak leadership from Europe and many other countries around the world that are allowing this to happen. The UN is so weak it might as well close it’s doors, they can’t offend Islam at any cost.
Westman says
Iran has enough partially enriched U235, which would, with further enrichment, be enough for at least 9 nuclear bombs. Iran should have enough 90% U235, presently, to build one bomb. Fortunately, Iran must also test any bomb design before using it as a weapon and any above-ground testing would be immediately discovered.
I don’t believe the Iranian citizens are going to allow themselves to be killed in a nuclear holocaust for the religious and personal aims of Islamic dictators. The regime only remains in power by beatings, incarceration, and murder. The Mullahs are playing with dynamite that could be lit from one end by Israel and the other end by the citizens. The pursuit of a nuclear bomb to destroy Israel may be the impetus that ends the religious-based regime.
PMK says
How much testing will Iran really need? They have been developing missile technology. Depending on the range of the missile, couldn’t even a home-made bomb with enriched uranium be launched at Jerusalem or even to parts of Europe, with deadly consequences?
Westman says
The design must be tested to know that the design works and that could take a few tries. If Iran sent a nuclear bomb to Israel which didn’t function or had a very low yield, the Regime would get nuked by a working bomb from Israel.
After testing an error still could be made during assembly of a deliverable bomb. Iran is unlikely to use a nuclear bomb unless it has a backup ready for use. In WWII, the US only had 3 nuclear bombs – tested one, dropped one while keeping a different mechanism & fuel type bomb in reserve, and finally dropped the last.
Iran will be unable to nuke Israel without killing Palestinians which makes the whole notion of bombing Israel seem a bit insane, even for the Mullahs. Iran would become a pariah state and the West would go to war against it.
PMK says
Westman,
Thanks for your response, I know the story of WWII and the nukes that were used then, but weapons technology has advanced considerably since then. Not being a nuclear expert, I take your word at the testing that has to be done, but how much of the preliminary testing can be done via computer? If Iran is serious about building a bomb, they are sure to have underground facilities.
Of course bombing Israel is insane, but I don’t think Iran really cares one way or another about the Palestinians. I just think of the harm that could be done to the Mediterranean and the many other nations in the area. The very existence of the Abraham Accords is proof that other Muslim nations are willing to work with their enemy, Israel, to counter Iran.
Westman says
True, PMK, there would be “secret” bomb-yield computer models in certain countries to which Iran might, through nefarious means, have gotten access. That is a definite wild card that could bypass testing.
The Abraham Accords seem to mark a growing impatience with both Iran and the “Palestinians”.