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| DATE | 2024-07-21 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS]
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that is not good
On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 06:54:43PM -0400, mayer ilovitz wrote:
> [ MI - all part of obama/biden's efforts to resolve 'the Israel
> Problem' once and for all ... ]
>
> https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/07/19/iran-one-or-two-weeks-away-from-producing-deadly-nuclear-fissile-material-blinken-warns/
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> July 19, 2024 | Flash Brief
>
>
> Iran ‘One or Two Weeks Away’ From Producing Deadly Nuclear Fissile
> Material, Blinken Warns
>
> *Latest Developments*
>
> U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated
> on July 19 that Iran was days away from producing fissile material
> sufficient for a nuclear weapon. Speaking at the Aspen Security
> Forum, the top U.S. diplomat said: “Instead of being at least a year
> away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material
> for a nuclear weapon, [Iran] is now probably one or two weeks away
> from doing that.” However, Blinken added, Iran had not yet produced
> a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, assessing that
> achieving this outcome would require more time.
>
> Acknowledging that Iran is unlikely to change its belligerent stance
> despite the election
> of Masoud Pezekshian, who has been widely portrayed as a regime
> “moderate,” as the regime’s new president, Blinken underlined that
> the United States still preferred a diplomatic route to prevent Iran
> from weaponizing its nuclear activities. “When this administration
> came in, we tried to pursue again, nuclear diplomacy with Iran,
> because if you could at least take one problem off the board, which
> is Iran potentially with a nuclear weapon, that’s inherently a good
> thing,” Blinken said. He stressed that “what we need to see, if Iran
> is serious about engaging, is actually pulling back on the work that
> it’s been doing on this program.”
>
> [ MI -"we are going to keep talking and preventing a military
> response until that bomb goes off. in the name of peace" ]
>
>
> *Expert Analysis*
>
> “Secretary Blinken failed to mention that the majority of Iran’s
> nuclear expansion has occurred during his administration amid its
> failure to enforce sanctions against Tehran. Washington has stood
> aside as Iran reaches the nuclear threshold and will have no one
> else to blame if the regime steps over it.” /Andrea Stricker/
> /, FDD Research Fellow
> and Deputy Director of FDD’s Nonproliferation and Biodefense
> Program/
>
> “The administration’s desire for diplomacy and de-escalation at any
> cost with Iran has not only undermined its deterrence, as well as
> its ability to close a deal that meaningfully addresses Iran’s
> nuclear program, but also ended up underwriting an expansion of
> Iran’s nuclear capacity that has brought us to this point. Iran’s
> constant escalation of its enriched uranium stockpiles at various
> levels of purity continues to pay dividends for the Tehran regime,
> leaving the secretary of state sounding like there’s a nuclear fait
> accompli around the corner.” — /Behnam Ben Taleblu/
> /, FDD Senior Fellow/
>
>
> *U.S. Warned Iran Over Weaponization*
>
> Blinken’s comments came just days after the United States was
> understood to have warned Iran
> over intelligence that the regime is working on applications
> relevant to nuclear weapons. Tehran reportedly explained the
> activities and denied the regime was seeking nuclear weapons. /Axios
> /reported in
> June that U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies obtained
> information during March “that showed Iranian scientists were
> engaging in computer modeling and metallurgical research” relevant
> to nuclear explosive development. The finding may impact an
> assertion the
> U.S. intelligence community has made annually since 2019 that Tehran
> “is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development
> activities necessary to produce a testable nuclear device.” In
> recent years, current and former Iranian officials have openly
> touted the
> regime’s ability to construct nuclear weapons.
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