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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Everybody knew that Iran wanted nukes
Date: 06/23/2025 5:21 PM
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...except some here and anybody who though the "Iran deal" that Obama signed was smart policy.

It wasn't.

Let's ask Russian president and now Deputy Chair of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev - the guy that Obama asked for more flexibility from after his election - about Iran's nuclear ambitions:

https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1936725544017...

What have the Americans accomplished with their nighttime strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran?

1. Critical infrastructure of the nuclear fuel cycle appears to have been unaffected or sustained only minor damage.

Editor's note: LOL, Ivan.

2. The enrichment of nuclear material — and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons — will continue.
3. A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads.


What an astonishing set of things there. First, anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knew the mullahs were enriching uranium for The Bomb. When you combine that fact with their development of ICBM's...there's no other reason to build an intercontinental ballistic missile UNLESS you intend to hang a nuke or two on it.

For those who won't want to grasp why that is, consider this scenario. You're the President and you're in the Oval Office and an aide of yours comes rushing in:

"Mr. President! NORAD reports the Iranians have fired an ICBM and it's headed for New York City! ETA is 45 minutes! What are your orders?"

No US President is going to sit there and twiddle his/her thumbs while waiting to see if NYC gets atomized. He/she would first ask if there was any way to shoot it down and could we evacuate New York in time. When the answer would come back NO to both then the next question is very simple:

What's our nuclear strike package look like for Iran, and how would we do it?

The Mullahs know that. Any nation on the receiving end of an ICBM HAS TO ASSUME it's packing a nuclear payload. The stakes are too high not to.

So, yes. Iran was working on a bomb the entire time. Likely with some help from what's left of the AQ Khan network.

The next insane part of that tweet is the "A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads". Sure, Dimitri. And make themselves targets of retaliation as well.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russias-forme...

"When you give somebody a nuclear weapon, and they can use it, you can't guarantee how they're going to use it," Lowther said. He added that with Tel Aviv and Washington so focused on preventing Iran from fielding nuclear weapons, Tehran would probably have only two choices if it does receive a warhead: Use the bomb or lose it.

And if Iran detonates a gifted nuke, Lowther added, American forensics would easily be able to trace the fissile material and bomb design to identify where the weapon originated.

"Then that country would be on the US's hit list," Lowther said.


So, nope.
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