Have you noticed that officials in the West are all chattering with renewed vigor and interest about the possibility of Iran being in possession of nuclear weapons that pose a threat to Israel especially, but also to the whole world? What gives? Has the threat of such a scenario increased or do they have something dastardly planned for 2025 and they’re dropping hints so they can justify a nasty course of action? It’s hard to tell at this point. But it’s not at all a good sign to see the increased talk about Iran having nukes.
There’s no doubt that the nuclear program in the Muslim majority nation — which makes a routine spectacle of screaming out loud how much they hate America — has made many strides toward reaching their goal of having weapons of this caliber in their arsenal. And if they do achieve that goal, it will forever change the Middle East and not in a good way.
Check out some information pulled from this article from the Telegraph titled, “Weakened Iran could hit back with a nuclear bomb, Trump told by White House.”
Iran could move to build a nuclear bomb after being weakened by wars in the Middle East, the White House has warned Donald Trump. Joe Biden’s national security advisor said he had briefed the incoming president on the “risk” of Tehran obtaining the weapons. It comes as Mr Trump is reportedly considering airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities when he becomes commander in chief again.
Members of the national security apparatus, including Jake Sullivan, are dead set on convincing President-elect Donald Trump that the nuclear program in Iran is a clear and very present danger that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. However, if the threat is this pressing why isn’t the current administration taking any action? Why was nothing done about it over the last four years?
Sullivan needs to be asked all of these questions and then some.
However, it’s a known fact that Iran has been going through the process of accruing large quantities of highly enriched uranium and it was being reported in early December that the country “now has enough fissile material to make more than a dozen nuclear weapons”…
On Tuesday, Britain, France and Germany accused Iran of growing its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to “unprecedented levels” without “any credible civilian justification.”
“Iran’s stockpile of High Enriched Uranium has also reached unprecedented levels, again without any credible civilian justification. It gives Iran the capability to rapidly produce sufficient fissile material for multiple nuclear weapons,” the trio said in the statement. In a report in early December, the Office of the United States Director of National Intelligence warned that “Iran now has enough fissile material to make more than a dozen nuclear weapons,” but said the regime had not yet decided to break out to a bomb.
Add to this the UN nuclear regulator issuing a warning to us that Iran is on the brink of being able to produce nuclear weapons.
The UN’s atomic regulator warned on Tuesday that Iran has already reached the cusp of obtaining nuclear weapons. There was no point reviving a 2015 diplomatic deal, agreed by then-US president Barack Obama, because Iran had dramatically expanded its production of uranium and is “practically at the same level as nuclear-armed states”, it said.
At this point, we need to hope and pray the experts are right and that Iran is, as of this writing, not capable of building weapons of mass destruction of this kind. However, a former ambassador from Israel to the U.S. spoke with Newsweek and said that Iran could have a nuclear missile within “weeks, maybe days”
Iran could have an operational nuclear weapon within “weeks, maybe days,” a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. said, as Israel closely watches whether Iran could quickly pivot and produce such a weapon before next month’s change of administration in Washington. Michael Oren told Newsweek that Iran will be dreading President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, adding that Tehran wouldn’t “dare” to make the final push toward an operational nuclear weapon once the new administration takes over.
However, Oren has complete faith and confidence that Iranians will be frightened away from producing these weapons once Trump is inaugurated. There’s a high probability that will indeed be the case, but let’s say that things don’t end up swinging that way? What if the opposite happens and they end up being so terrified of the incoming administration that they now believe building nukes is necessary for their national defense?
Earlier in December the Wall Street Journal reported that the president-elect is considering airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear program.
President-elect Donald Trump is weighing options for stopping Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon, including the possibility of preventive airstrikes, a move that would break with the longstanding policy of containing Tehran with diplomacy and sanctions. The military-strike option against nuclear facilities is now under more serious review by some members of his transition team, who are weighing the fall of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad—Tehran’s ally—in Syria, the future of U.S. troops in the region, and Israel’s decimation of regime proxy militias Hezbollah and Hamas.
The true danger of Iran producing nuclear weapons is the possibility of handing them off to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and other groups that are located all across the Middle East. That would be the start of a third global conflict that would pull in major powers in Europe and eventually the United States. Things would go from bad to worse real quick.
But if we start bombing the snot out of Iran, that too could cause a massive upheaval in the region. So what’s the solution? It seems like no matter which direction is taken, the ultimate result is war.
All we can do is pray for wisdom that leads to peace.
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