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Iran Nuclear 'Breakout Time' Could Be Weeks if Not Restrained, Says Blinken
2021-06-08
And what plans, besides negotiating an unenforceable “deal”, does the Harris/Biden administration have to restrain Iran? Or is the secret plan to yell at Israel after they’ve handled it as they did the nuclear bomb projects of Iraq and Syria?
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The United States still does not know whether Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
is ready to resume compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal and if Tehran continues to violate the pact, the "breakout time" it needs to amass enough fissile material for a single nuclear weapon will shrink to weeks, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday.

"It remains unclear whether Iran is willing and prepared to do what it needs to do come back into compliance," Blinken told politicians.

"Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system...
its program is galloping forward. ... The longer this goes on, the more the breakout time gets down ... it's now down, by public reports, to a few months at best. And if this continues, it will get down to a matter of weeks."

The United States and Iran began indirect talks in Vienna in April to see if both sides might agree to resume compliance with the 2015 accord under which Tehran agreed to restrain its nuclear program to make it harder to obtain fissile material for a weapon in return for relief from US, EU and UN sanctions.

The fifth round of talks ended on June 2 and diplomats have said a sixth may begin on Thursday, though that was not set in stone. The United States abandoned the agreement in 2018, prompting Iran to begin violating its terms about a year later.

Resuming talks on Thursday would leave only eight days to reach a pact before Iran's June 18 election, which is likely to usher in a hardline president. Some delegates say that while a deal is possible by then, it appears increasingly unlikely.
Posted by:Fred

#3  
Blinken, Biden and Harris will publicly wring their hands while Obama celebrates privately with ValJar and Big Mike at the Kalorama compound.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-06-08 12:22  

#2  The Periwinkle Clue Bat hits it outta the park.

Just what would the US propose to do 'restrain' the Mad Mullahs? For how long? Not even more-ons, they're less-ons.
Posted by: Bobby   2021-06-08 11:05  

#1  ....Waitaminnit.

All the best people kept telling me that they were always six months to a year or more away. Is SecState telling me the best people were wrong?

Idiots. If it's truly that bad, we - and, by the by, the rest of the civilized world are screwed.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-06-08 06:46  

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