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Iran’s nuclear breakout time now ‘really short’ — US official
2021-12-18
[IsraelTimes] Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan says ’we do not yet have a pathway back’ to 2015 nuclear deal as Vienna talks paused.
It sounds like talks have become pointless. So what are you going to do about this existential crisis, other than wring your hands while you wait for the bomb to drop — first on Israel, then on Saudi Arabia, then on Washington, DC?
The United States estimates the amount of time Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
needs to churn out enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb is now "very short," a Biden administration, the guys that caused the debacle in Afghanistan
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
official said Friday.

The official, who briefed news hounds on condition of anonymity, did not specify the amount of time Iran needs to produce enough material for a nuclear weapon. Estimates have put the breakout time at several months.

"But it’s really short. It is unacceptably short," the official was quoted as saying by Rooters.

In a blow to European mediators, Iran requested a new pause in the talks in Vienna, which aim to bring the United States back into the 2015 agreement and roll back nuclear activities. The Islamic Theocratic Republic stepped up its nuclear projects after the US withdrawal.

The talks had just resumed in late November after a five-month break following the election of a new hardline government in Iran.

Underlying Western concerns are fears that Iran will soon have made enough progress that the 2015 accord — under which it was promised economic relief in return for drastic curbs on its nuclear work — will be obsolete.
It was obsolete the day it was presented for signatures, but that was intended by both Iran’s Mad Mullahs and the Barack Obama administration.




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Posted by:trailing wife

#9   The world wouldn't know whom to blame.

See: Orange Man Badâ„¢
Posted by: Frank G   2021-12-18 21:45  

#8  
while you wait for the bomb to drop

I am more worried about a bomb of unknown source going off at ground level, say in some large city in the Middle East, not necessarily in Israel. Talk about "dread" or "confusion". The world wouldn't know whom to blame.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2021-12-18 20:10  

#7  H-Bomb Hummis
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-18 11:45  

#6   "the existential angst", a sense of dread, disorientation, confusion, or anxiety in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world
-Wiki
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-18 11:18  

#5  Seems more Hersh than Herb
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-18 06:24  

#4  that's a load of bullshit from our latest Herb
Posted by: Frank G   2021-12-18 06:04  

#3   that if Israel is in danger of ceasing to exist, they will launch their nuclear weapons onto the capitals of Western Europe.

Eh? Europe? When did anyone say that?
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-12-18 02:08  

#2  I don't doubt Israel would go all Sampson on their Persian asses. That is just Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) with a little Middle Eastern seasoning.

I'm skeptical, however, the Euros will do anything. From the Euro point of view, war takes care of two problems - Israel and Iran. As long as Euro-land can get fuel from Russia, they're golden.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-12-18 01:41  

#1  Israel has a nuclear deterrent. They have stated in the past the Samson Option: that if Israel is in danger of ceasing to exist, they will launch their nuclear weapons onto the capitals of Western Europe. So the Europeans will be motivated to fix this one for them.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443   2021-12-18 00:51  

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