International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi has been sounding the alarm about Iran for some time. In September, he warned that Iran had stopped abiding by the nuclear deal three and a half years ago. In February 2023, the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that Iran had accumulated uranium enriched to 84% purity — the highest level found by inspectors in the country to that date, and a concentration just 6% below what is needed for a weapon. Iran knew that it was virtually free to develop a nuclear bomb without any accountability. In 2022, Israel had given the nuclear watchdog evidence of four concealed Iranian nuclear sites. Yet nothing was done about it. Iran was left to its own devices.
And now the International Atomic Energy Agency is saying “that there was little point in trying to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, with Iran already practically a nuclear threshold state.” This statement in itself is not relevant. The nuke deal was a sham to begin with, as it was based on lies, by Iran’s own admission.
A nuke deal cannot stop Iran. Only severe sanctions can, which Trump applied while in power, but which Biden discontinued. Instead of enforcing sanctions, Biden empowered Iran. Whatever abilities to produce a nuclear weapon Iran has acquired is owed to the Biden administration.
“UN monitor says reviving Iran deal now irrelevant, since Tehran on cusp of nuke,” Times of Israel, December 17, 2024:
The UN’s top atomic regulator said this week that there was little point in trying to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, with Iran already practically a nuclear threshold state.
The comments by International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi in Italy on Monday underlined growing frustration by the UN monitor toward Iran, which has blown past stockpile limits set by the landmark pact and spurned inspections since Washington abandoned the deal in 2018.
Under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran was only permitted to enrich uranium to 3.68 percent purity, a level consistent with civilian uses of nuclear technology that Iran claims are its only pursuit, capping its stockpile at 300 kilograms.
But according to an IAEA report handed to member states and leaked to the press earlier this month, Iran has begun dramatically expanding its production of uranium enriched to near-weapons grade levels, collecting enough material for several bombs already….
somehistory says
No surprise. iran’s ghouls never meant to keep any deal/agreement which would limit what they could do regarding the ability to threaten and then murder those they hate.
The “deal” was a sham from the beginning, just as was the “presidency” of a major participant in the ‘deal.’
bo played the president, and paid (with billions of dollars taken from American citizens) iran to work on making nukes and funding hamas, hezbollah and other terrorists.
john kerry, whose son-in-law is iranian, sat down with the ghouls and worked out how to fool the American public, so many would put trust in a ‘deal’ that would supposedly keep iran from having nuke power.
The ghouls of iran are desperate. If they produce a nuke, they will have no qualms about using it.
Burnaby Lad says
i wonder if there’s a connection between the fall of al-assad and the assassinated russian general
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Either Israel or the US should, after January 20th, take out Iran’s nuke installations. Israel did some of it last month by attacking undeclared Iranian nuke sites, thereby sticking to the letter of the Biden demands, since Biden’s handlers clearly want a nuclear islamic republic. However, Israel could do nothing to Iran’s declared military nuclear sites, as a result of this pressure
However, since Israel also destroyed Iran’s entire air force as well as their anti-aircraft defenses, and the latter hasn’t been able to replenish it from Moscow (dunno about Beijing), it should be relatively safe for either the US or Israel to hit what’s remaining. If Trump doesn’t wanna get US forces involved, a good idea would be to give Israel the JDAM bunker buster bombs and let them unload them on the surviving sites that Iran has and destroy them completely. Once that happens, the islamic regime will be too anemic to survive, and hopefully, Iran will get a better regime than Syria
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“…Biden’s handlers clearly want a nuclear islamic republic.”
With respect, why would they want this?
David M says
People in the know say Iran got nukes years ago. We’ve been hearing they are “on the verge” of getting a nuke for the last 10 years.