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New Report About Iran and Highly Enriched Uranium Deals Huge Blow to the Anti-Trump Narrative
New Report About Iran and Highly Enriched Uranium Deals Huge Blow to the Anti-Trump Narrative
New report reveals Iran's HEU stockpile threatens global security, challenging anti-Trump narratives.
redstate.com
We heard a lot from the Democrats and media when the Trump administration launched Operation Epic Fury, arguing that there was no real threat.
Now, there's a story from "60 Minutes" that actually points to how real the threat was because of the concern about the highly enriched uranium (HEU).
It's believed Iran currently has enough HEU to eventually make 10 atomic bombs. But international inspectors have not been allowed to verify Iran's stockpile since last June, when the U.S. and Israel struck three nuclear sites.
Dr. Matthew Bunn, a Harvard Kennedy School professor and former White House nuclear advisor, said that almost 1000 pounds would be "enough material, if you enrich it just a little bit more, for 10-11 nuclear bombs."
He also explained how "Iran has been lying about its nuclear weapons effort for over 20 years now." He said their claim that they weren't working on pursuing a weapon was a lie.
That information about the HEU alone would show the huge problem and why Trump acted. It puts paid to the anti-Trump claim, pushed by some on the left, that there was no threat. And the fighting has only revealed even more how unhinged the Iranian regime is, from killing thousands of their own people, to firing missiles and launching drone attacks on their Gulf neighbors. Plus, we learned they may be able to fire missiles farther than previously claimed when they targeted Diego Garcia. So if they have that capability, they could hit U.S. bases in Europe.
Now, the "60 Minutes" story speaks about a prior operation to secure HEU in Kazakhstan. It seemed to be pushing the merits of cooperation to secure it, versus a military operation. That's all well and good if you have a cooperative or trustworthy country, which you don't in Iran. They had on Vice Admiral Robert Harward, who was a deputy commander of U.S. Central Command. He said that if you tried to seize it, it could take weeks and take a lot of personnel on the ground.
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This is why the highly enriched uranium has been the focus of the U.S. negotiations with Iran. You would have to ensure you accounted for it all, and that you had very real monitoring to make sure that they weren't trying to resurrect the program that the regime could not get around. But that would be much easier to determine if the IRGC were no longer in power.
Commentary:
We (and the rest of the world) have absolutely no way to know exactly how much HEU the Iranians have. Iranians lie about everything. We think we know about their missiles, and then we have to say, “Gee it turns out they have missiles that go a lot farther than we thought.” Surprise! Do you really think it will be any different with the bomb material?
If we think they have around 1000 pounds, what’s to say they don’t have more stashed away somewhere else as a fallback? Hell, I would do that if I were them.
There has always been the threat that Iran has built at least one nuke.
For all we know there may be 25 kilos of HEU that Iran has stashed and they will use it if pushed to that point.
The IRGC Command and control needs to be zeroed out.
Despite all the posturing, there are really only two options left: Let Iran keep its influence, oil, and government, or wage a war of conquest to seize the nuclear facilities and change the government.
We’ll know pretty quickly in less than 36 hours.
The Iranians have no options. If they fold to us, they’ll lose any influence they have over ME affairs. Their only choice is to fight with whatever they may have.
They attempt to stall the negotiations up to the last second.
Trump's actions will be decisive and spectacular in where and what the targets are.
I don’t doubt that we will “win,” in the sense of blunt force, but it won’t come cheap in treasure or blood. No embargo and air campaign is going to starve them out, so our people will have to force their way in and find the uranium and anything else we’re worried about.
