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Israel said to fear restored Iran deal will leave breakout time of only a few months
2022-02-06
Israel is responding to the latest on the “negotiation”.
[IsraelTimes] ’It is better to have a distance of a few months and not just weeks,’ US sources quoted as saying; 2015 pact envisioned Tehran would need a year to amass enough material for bomb.
This is why we did not vote for those idiots.
Israel fears that reviving the nuclear deal between Iran
...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...
and world powers may leave Tehran only a few months away from having enough fissile material for an atomic bomb, Israeli television reported Saturday.

The Kan public broadcaster did not specify who in Israel was concerned by the possibility that Iran’s so-called breakout time would be significantly shorter under a restored nuclear agreement.

But American sources quoted in the report appeared to acknowledge such a prospect.

"It is better to have a distance of a few months and not just weeks, as would happen if no agreement is signed," the sources said.
Something needs to be bombed until the rubble bounces. Then the distance will be nearly infinite, as it became in Iraq and Syria.
The original deal aimed to keep Iran at least a year away from amassing enough material for a nuclear weapon.
That was profoundly stupid, too.
The Kan report came days after US officials told The Wall Street Journal that a revived agreement would leave Iran with a breakout time well below a year, citing the advances in its nuclear program since then-president Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
withdrew the United States from the accord in 2018.

The exact length of the breakout time will depend on the manner in which Iran agrees to return to compliance with the deal, be it by dismantling its stockpiles of enriched uranium and relevant pieces of equipment, destroying them or shipping them abroad.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
enough nuclear material for a bomb is not the same as having the capabilities to build the core of the weapon and to attach it to the warhead of a missile, which Iran is not believed to possess and would likely take many more months to achieve.
Unless they were working the projects in parallel, using dual-use parts from the same suppliers they’ve been buying from, in which case the time suck will be demonstrating that the design works as intended. After all, they’ve been working this project for over two decades, as the CIA admitted some years after it came out they’d shaded the truth in their annual report on the subject to President George W. Bush.
Despite the JCPOA’s more limited impact, US negotiators are still committed to returning to the deal, guided by the belief that some restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program are better than none at all.
Related:
JCPOA: 2022-02-03 Menendez questions efforts to revive Iran nuke deal, signaling trouble for Biden
JCPOA: 2022-01-24 US Navy seizes vessel carrying potential explosives
JCPOA: 2022-01-23 Russia offered Iran interim nuclear deal with US' knowledge - report
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  "It is better to have a distance of a few months and not just weeks," US sources quoted as saying; 2015 pact envisioned Tehran would need a year to amass enough material for bomb.

'Did I say never? I meant, ten years!'
'Did I say ten years? I meant, a year!'
'Did I say one year? I meant, a month!'
'Did I say a month? I meant, weeks!'
'Did I say....
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-06 13:13  

#6  All to conjure a sense of struggle and hopelessness.
Leading to the breakdown of a failed regional state.

Odd that Iran hasn't acquired (bought/given/stolen, gifted from Mo) a nuclear device in the 20 years since their most recent manifestation.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-06 13:08  

#5  Let Lev do it
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-06 13:02  

#4  Israel needs to bite the bullet and handle it despite America running interference for Iran, just like they did Iraq and Syria. We have articles in the Rantburg archives dating back to 2003 detailing their concerns, and other articles from time to time revealing some of their actions delaying what some shrug off as inevitable — bugs in the program controlling the centrifuges, flaws built into purchased parts and equipment, assassination of some of Iran’s nuclear scientists and the clear subornation of others, and the glorious raid on the Tehran project files warehouse.

Posted by: trailing wife   2022-02-06 12:50  

#3  Either way we will lose the war because our generals not only can't win, they don't want to win.

Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2022-02-06 12:30  

#2  Unfortunately we're at the point where we can choose to fight Iran before they get the nuclear bomb or choose to fight them after they get the nuclear bomb. Either way while a commie puppet sits in the white house.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2022-02-06 12:20  

#1  Oh good! Another war! This will surely work, unlike the last 88 times we tried it.

Say, what was the last war the Pentagon won? There hasn't been one this century. In fact, they just lost to 8th century goat herders. How are they planning on winning a real war against a tough adversary if they can't even win against primitive screwheads?

The question answers itself, doesn't it? They don't want to win. They just want another war. More Americans to decorate the cemeteries in Arlington and more returning home with blown-off limbs or shattered psyches.

We're sick of war. The idea of kids, just young American kids going to war in Iran when it doesn't benefit the American people in the least is even more sickening to me now than ever.
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2022-02-06 03:24  

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