Officials and analysts have been putting out “Iran X From Nuclear Weapon” stories where X is some amount of time for decades now, but as officials have tried to ratchet up the tension in recent months, X keeps getting smaller and smaller, and less and less credible.
Today, Benjamin Netanyahu got the figure down to three weeks, playing up the idea that Iran would retain “breakout capability” under the deal with the P5+1 and could whip up a bomb in a matter of weeks.
The claim is, of course, ridiculous, and the faulty calculation rests on the notion that Iran will retain a certain amount of civilian enrichment capability to produce 3.5 percent uranium, which fuels the Bushehr Power Plant. The idea, then, is that Iran’s ability to produce 3.5 percent uranium, on top of its existing stockpile of 3.5 percent uranium, would get them to enough fissile material for a single bomb.
Which ignores that one can’t build a nuclear weapon out of 3.5 percent uranium, and ignores Iran’s lack of warheads, and a lot of other things. Like all the other already missed predictions, Netanyahu’s is meant to scare people more than offer a sincere assessment.
But scaring people is getting harder and harder as Netanyahu’s shrill proclamations continue to miss the mark and Iran’s reformist government moves toward rapprochement with the world. Israel remains opposed to any deal, and is continuing to argue that civilian enrichment amounts to an existential “threat to the Jewish people,” an argument which seems aimed at excusing his ongoing plots to attack Iran in the event that diplomacy succeeds.
Yawn…
Just keep up the bs bibi, let the world now what kind of a murderous lunatic you are.
the world already knows it is just that the US protects him…
some day the US and israel are going to pay a a huge price for thier world-wide terror
Yawn…
Just keep up the bs bibi, let the world now what kind of a murderous lunatic you are.
The fact that this bleeding anus is still given some sort of serious forum anywhere at all and is not laughed at and roundly humiliated and shut down is a tribute to who controls the media and what the agenda is that 's being set.
And the next time we go to wring our hands about the poor Israeli people held captive by this person, remember he is Israel's favorite son by a wide margin, anointed "King Bibi" by Time magazine some months back. He is their Chosen representative to the world, and he is making them look like idiots.
Remember, the only democracy in the middle east.
I pity poor Netenyahu. He so wants to push the United States and Europe into a nasty war which may ignite into a larger one. Someone there in Israel please tell him that the American and European people want no more death and destruction. We are sick and tired of wasting lives and money and watching things getting worse in our own countries,
Bibi the ONLY man in Human History to sell a Nuclear weapon according to the South African Government that bought the six of them from him, and the Israeli Government!
On that basis alone he should be dragged off to "the Hague" for selling weapons of Mass destruction to a country that at the time was subject to a UN security Council arms embargo!
With his two years, next year, six month, two months and now three weeks I suspect Nuts is related to Thomas Friedman.
With his two years, next year, six month, two months and now three weeks I suspect Nuts is related to Thomas Friedman.
nice…
The sad thing is that all of these talking points is directed at the American public by this lunatic, makes you wonder if Obama is the president or just a puppet.
Netanyahu is clearly unbalanced and mentally challenged.
In a coule of weeks, this nut will claim Iran needs 1 hour, 18 minutes and 45 seconds to make the bomb. And still the MSM will take him seriously.
I thought this deal slowed down Iran's ability to produce a nuke by 24 days? That in itself is 3 weeks and 3 days which would have to be added to whatever lie they were telling before. So how did bibi come up with just 3 weeks? Doesn't he check his previous bulls**t to authenticate his latest bulls**t??