Adding to speculation that the US is preparing to back out of the Iran nuclear deal, White House spokeswomen Jen Psaki is now claiming that Iran could produce a nuclear weapon within a matter of weeks.
Psaki claimed it “definitely worries us,” and that’s probably going to be an excuse to step up claims of a deadline for the nuclear deal, at a time when Iran wants talks, but nothing seems to be happening.
The claims about a nuclear weapon are very false. Iran has never produced any weapons grade uranium. The highest grade they are producing is 60%, and it took them multiple months to produce 7 kg, which is nowhere near enough for a weapon, even if it had been enriched to 90%.
When they come up with “within weeks” estimates, it tends to be built around the idea that at some point, all of the uranium would cumulatively be enough for a single weapon, if enriched to a level Iran has never attempted, and totally ignoring all of the other steps to a deliverable weapon, which take months if not years.
This “weeks” estimate almost certainly came out of Israel, as they’ve been pushing rapid breakout periods all year to try to undercut the nuclear negotiations. The Israeli government has been making breakout projections on Iran for 40 years, none of them grounded in reality, all of them wrong.
This is fresh intelligence from a new agent code name Bibi?
The first time you have written something sensible, John!!
“They don’t like us, anyhow, let’s drop the big one and see what happens…”
Ah, well, they could have had a nuke years ago too, if they had wanted one or a few. It’s actually not that hard to build them … eighty year old tech. The fact that they have not done so is an indication of their intent now as well.
I imagine the threats of attack will be forthcoming. Might be a tough sell given our staunch opposition of invading countries based on security issues. They did put their country in the middle of our bases after all so maybe we can still claim self-defense.
She should have exaggerated her lying to get more idiotic attention before leaving WH…! something like: “White House Falsely Claims Iran Could Have Nuclear Weapon in ‘Hours’….!
7 kg of weapons grade U235 was enough for the Hiroshima bomb. However, having the explosive is still a far cry from having a nuclear weapon hence this statement is deliberate baloney. Moreover, if this is what the Biden administration believes, it should have already rejoined the JCPOA with its more rigid control and the destruction by dilution of all 60% enriched material.
Iran is still adhering to the NPT that it signed in 1968, ratified in 1970. That treaty has not been signed by a real nuclear power, Israel.
How’s that JCPOA deal coming, eh, guys? Gonna sign it tomorrow, right? LOL
7 Kg of U235 isn’t halfway to a bomb but Iran could have enough Pu239 by now for multiple bombs. Bushehr has been operational awhile. All the talk is just talk. You can’t really separate the nuclear genies. Go long in oil.
White House Falsely Claims US Could Have Nuclear Weapon in ‘Weeks’