Iran has attacked NO country in over three centuries, Israel has attacked all of its neighbors and threatened destruction on countries further afield. The head of Iran banned nuclear weapons development in Iran and he was murdered by the USA and Israel. Look at the facts.
Iran is continuously attacking Israel through proxies, and has attacked Israel directly last year. Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979.
Surely you've seen John Leake go over the history several times in these threads. A quick summary on the years warhawks never mention:
1908, oil discovered in Iran, Britain takes the majority of the profits
1950, Iran proposes a 50/50 split as provided to the Saudis and others; turned down
1953, Iran nationalizes its oil
1953, CIA and MI6 overthrow the democratically elected president of Iran, install U.S. puppet, The Shah
1979, after years of murder, torture, and abuse, the Shah, is overthrown (thus beginning the 47 years of discord with the U.S. while ignoring our previous provocations)
1980-88, Iraq under U.S. puppet Saddam Hussein invades Iran, egged on by U.S. money, arms, and chemical/biological weapons. Iran finally wins, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
Iran has not been at war with the U.S., no imminent threat existed (instead, we killed their negotiators), a declaration of war was required but not requested, and the US. attack on Iran is almost certainly an illegal war of aggression under international law, the kind outlawed by the Nuremberg Code. Iran seems to have the upper hand on the ground, and Trump needs a quick agreement to re-open the strait to save not only his presidency but the world economy.
well, he won't get an agreement with his terms. did you see JD Vance's embarrassing attempt at explaining away Iran's demand that israel stop invading and massacring Lebanon? "oh, that was a misunderstanding. it was never on the table." misunderstanding, my ass. you can't enter a negotiation if you've already decided that you are the "great" "victor" and the other country is only there to agree and sign away it's sovereignty.
when Trump said that Iran's 10 point plan was the basis of the negotiation, had he bothered to read it first? then the next day, Leavitt says "it's garbage; we threw it in the trash." no honey, it reflects reality. you don't set the terms when you lose.
then again, Mearsheimer says Vance is in a terrible position because all he can do is admit defeat and agree to Iran's demands which will end any hopes he has of being the next President and probably destroy his relationship with his boss who seems to like only yes men who deliver "wins," even imaginary ones.
this same thing happened with the Russia/Ukraine war and our clown car attempts at "diplomacy." you can't demand that the winner on the battlefield make concessions and the US needed to enter those talks knowing that it was in the losing position. but of course, the US of A is always the "good" guy and always the "winner" at least in the deluded minds of our "war" department.
Interesting that the description of 1979 presented here makes no mention of the theocratic takeover by mad Mullahs who seek a global caliphate, necessitating destruction of the West, to be achieved by washing the world in blood of unbelievers and burning it under the fire of mad Islam, and who in the meantime make do with oppressing its own people, including women and infidels, and harrassing its neighbors. Nuclear in their hands would be no biggie. Iran is somehow still just some group of poor old country boys just trying to get by after finding some gold in their backyard. Going back further, interesting that the rationale for rejecting the so-called 50/50 offer was omitted, as was context for what an act of nationalizing (oil) really means to those other stakeholders at the time. I see the rants here about “Iran good, ‘Merica bad”. People are welcome to their opinion but I’m not buying what they’re selling.
Very unlikely anybody is saying "Iran good." More like "Iran is a victim of Britain, Russia, Israel, and the U.S.," with understandable enmity for its oppressors. As a mental exercise, imagine your country being exploited by foreigners for a century? I have no idea how popular the mullahs were in 1979, but clearly the Shah was hated. And by extension, his puppetmasters. Similarly, if the Democrats win in 2028, it won't be because they're universally loved, but because Trump screwed up so chumpily. He should have been another Washington, a savior of his country, but he blew it, probably due to blackmail or bribery.
Doing what needs doing--words spoken by probably every despot in history, and their supporters, but not really an argument. Sometimes the despots won, though at great cost, other times they got hung from lampposts or worse. See how recognized Trump and the U.S. will be in six months if the strait is still closed and we're in a worldwide depression (remember, the strait was open until Trumpanyahu attacked, and Trump was warned it would be closed as a result). There may never have been a financial situation (massive debts and leverage) less able to handle an energy disruption, and there is infrastructure at risk in the Persian Gulf states that would take 10 years to rebuild.
John Leake has a gigantic "tunnel vision" problem which is especially noteworthy given the gigantic complex issues he has decided to deal with thru his peep hole.
Give an example or two. I'd say that considering the 100-plus year history of British and U.S. encroachment on Iran is a much broader analysis than the peephole/tunnel-vision view that, for example, "Iran attacked Israel last year" (presumably after the U.S. bombed Iran in June 2025). If you start a fistfight in a bar and the other guy pulls a knife, shooting him dead will not be accepted as a self-defense killing you initiated the violence. Same logic should apply to nations.
israel's horrid aggressive entitled behavior makes all it's neighbors pre-emptive enemies. those "proxies" are necessary self defense against a supremacist sliver of a country that couldn't survive more than a few weeks if the US would just (please, i'm begging) withdraw it's support but wants all the land in sight and is willing to steal homes and murder the inhabitants. if i had a "neighbor" like israel, i'd want me a well armed proxy too!
The key passage from the Constitution of the Iran (Article 154), translated into English:
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has as its ideal human felicity throughout human society, and considers the attainment of independence, freedom, and rule of justice and truth to be the right of all people of the world.
Accordingly, while scrupulously refraining from all forms of interference in the internal affairs of other nations, it supports the just struggles of the oppressed (mustazafin) against the arrogant (mustakbirin) in every corner of the globe.”
What this means in practice
• “The oppressed” (mustazafin) is a broad, ideological category—not tied to any one country.
• Iranian authorities interpret this as applying strongly to Palestinians.
• That’s why support for Palestine is framed as constitutional in spirit, even though the word “Palestine” does not appear.
Your comment is laughable......Do you realize that Hamas' ruling Covenant called for GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS & elimination of the state of Israel. By your logic, Since it's in their Covenant, it must make their Genocidal goals perfectly OK. BTW: HAMAS IS BACKED & FINANCED BY IRAN.
I especially like...Hamas is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. It has called on members of the other two Abrahamic faiths—Judaism and Christianity—to accept Islamic rule in the Middle East. “It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the SOVEREIGNTY of Islam in this region"
You should live in Iran for a while, and then come back and tell me how it went. Women don't fare well in Iran. Here's some info from a woman who was born there and grew up there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyI-Djv9llw&t=86s
thank god for proxies! if it wasn't for Hezbollah, Lebanon and it's people would be completely overrun and slaughtered by the homicidal, genocidal, maniacal IDF. Isr**l wants every country around it to be completely without defenses so they they can walk in, kill everyone and steal the land. good for Iran for including the protection of Lebanon in it's demands. someone needs to cut BiBi down to size and stop the USA in it's end stage Empire in collapse rampage. BiBi has a country; let him stay within it's borders and learn how to get along with his neighbors instead of relying on the big bad USA to pay all it's bills and fight all it's battles. he's always whining that everyone wants to kill "his people" but since he wants to kill everyone, who could blame the rest of the world for LOATHING this terrible country? how many trillions has the USA wasted trying to keep this spoiled bad boy in line? these horrid people are bulldozing ancient olive trees! blowing up heritage sites. Fuck Isr**l.
ah yes, Israel, Israel, always the victim, never the aggressor. always playing the beleaguered jewish mother schtick. bullshit!!
those "proxies" serve to defend the local villages from Israel's constant attacks. without Hezbollah fighting back, Israel would kill every living thing in Lebanon and turn it into rubble. they've bulldozed centuries old olive trees! what kind of sick people destroy such ancient life?
Iran has been at war with no one. the USA has been at war with Iran for over 70 years. we over threw their government, installed our police state puppet, have been sanctioning them forever, and can't deal with any other countries doing well.
I'm hoping Iran can cut the terrorist Empire that the USA has become back to size. it's a big ask, I know.
as for Israel, that it exists at all with it's paranoid genocidal intentions, was an arrogant British ploy to get the troublesome jews out of Europe. who were they to give already inhabited land to a bunch of people who had only the most tenuous connection to that land and give them license to steal, murder and marauder the population that had been there for eons?
Iran has attacked many countries thru its funding of the terror activities of Hamas, Hezbollah, & the Houthis.
Such attacks reflect a long pattern of ASYMMETRIC warfare by Iran against its neighbors & U.S. interests using those deniable proxies to avoid direct confrontation, i.e. They're cowards and liars.
when the USA uses proxies to foment unrest in other countries or to fight wars, as in sacrificing Ukraine in a futile attempt to weaken Russia, do we qualify as cowards and liars? the only correct answer to that question is YES!!
since the USA decides what groups to call "terrorists" based on the demands of the real terrorist in the region, i would say that those groups provide a needed self defense against the aggression of the one country that American taxpayers fund to commit genocides
It´s not asymmetric warfare. It´s their Constitution. As per ChatGPT:
The key passage from the Constitution of the Iran (Article 154), translated into English:
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has as its ideal human felicity throughout human society, and considers the attainment of independence, freedom, and rule of justice and truth to be the right of all people of the world.
Accordingly, while scrupulously refraining from all forms of interference in the internal affairs of other nations, it supports the just struggles of the oppressed (mustazafin) against the arrogant (mustakbirin) in every corner of the globe.”
What this means in practice
• “The oppressed” (mustazafin) is a broad, ideological category—not tied to any one country.
• Iranian authorities interpret this as applying strongly to Palestinians.
• That’s why support for Palestine is framed as constitutional in spirit, even though the word “Palestine” does not appear.
Naive. Iran must be stripped of its capability to wreak nuclear havoc. Trump understands this while doing the hard part of leadership. LinkedIn corporate kumbaya leaders need not apply.
unlike the US government which is "always" truthful and never uses force to bend other countries to it's awful will. watch out, your bigotry and ignorance are on full display.
Ever heard of Hezbollah, Houthi's and the other terrorist groups, funded by Iran? Hezbollah had plenty to do with 10/2023 invading Israel - right?
Guess you're saying, they had nothing to do with 9/11.
So, Iraq started their war? Maybe they did.
Iran scatter shot all their neighbors day one of the current war. Israel has never done that, that I'm aware of.
More Iranian armed proxies
-I'm no fan of wiki, but this is what they have;
Armed groups:
MEK
Tudeh Party
Peykar
Furqan
Iran NEQAB
Union of Iranian Communists
Union of Communist Militants
Workers' Way
Fedaian (majority)
Fedaian (minority)
Fedai Guerrillas
Laborers' Party
Turkmen People's Cultural and Political Society
Separatists:
KDPI
Komala
DRFLA
PFLA
AFLA
Presenting Iran as squeaky clean - is bullshit, imo
So, 30,000 Iranians that were killed ( a few months ago) for protesting, doesn't count against them? They want to kill all Jews and Americans - guess that doesn't count.
That the Iranian negotiators bragged about having the uranium and their ability to make 11 nukes -- on the first day of negotiations... is telling, I'd say.
Anything you find about Iran in Wikipedia should be verified by other sources. Wikipedia is notorious for bias when it comes to controversial political issues, and there is evidence that the bias is inserted by British and American intelligence.
As for the assertion that "30,000 Iranians that were killed (a few months ago) for protesting", the actual figure is more in the range of 3,000, and these particular protests featured Mossad agents (publicly admitted by Israeli intelligence) and protesters equipped with weapons who assaulted police. The "30,000" claim is a classic example of a propaganda smear that is amplified by constant repetition.
Exaggerated claims for political gains should be considered with any claim in the news used for political advantages like numbers of civilians killed in Iranian protests should be looked at speculatively one needs to consider careful investigation of what occurred and ask the question were the protesters encouraged or incited by operatives from Israel or the United States? Were they armed and was this done all to set up a preemptive attack on Iran by Israel in the United States
I heard 40 babies were beheaded along with the 30,000 protestors killed! And other babies were tossed for sport on bayonets! And incubators were overturned and those babies left to die on the cold, hard floor! I heard it from unimpeachable sources--the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter living in DC and the U.S. PR firm representing Kuwait! If Iran won't give up its nucl'er ambitions and kiss Trump's butt live on the TV, then that whole backward excuse of a country, more'n twice the size of Texas, must be nuked! Turned into glass! It's just common sense! I can't believe everybody doesn't agree with me! Why even the Eye-ran rebels are begging us to do it!!
maybe they cut out the tongues of 50,000 protestors and the appendixes of 90,000! sweet, how you can just make shit up and use it to justify your homicidal fantasies
I give you examples of war propaganda, and your conclusion is that I make things up? Tell me, did Hamas behead 40 babies during the 10/7/2023 incursion? Because though that accusation was reported at the time, including by Amtrak Joe Biden, even the Israelis have declined to confirm it.
As people have noted at least since World War I, "Truth is the first casualty of war." The lie about Kuwaiti babies being killed by Iraqis is even more fully discredited than the 40 Israeli babies. An AI summary:
"The claim that Iraqi soldiers removed Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them on the cold floor to die was a central piece of propaganda used to build public support for the 1991 Gulf War. This narrative was primarily driven by the emotional testimony of a 15-year-old girl identified only as Nayirah, who appeared before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus in October 1990.
"It was later revealed that Nayirah was the daughter of Saud Nasir al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, and that her testimony was orchestrated by the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton on behalf of the Kuwaiti government. Human rights groups like Amnesty International and subsequent investigations found no evidence that such atrocities occurred on the scale described, with many medical workers in Kuwait denying the existence of the incident. Despite being exposed as a fabrication, the story had a significant impact on American public opinion and the decision to authorize military force against Iraq."
And remember, before Iraq became our enemy, it was our proxy army for the invasion and war on Iran between 1980 and 1988.
Wikipedia is well-known for its leftist bias. Read what is written about covid heroes Drs. McCullough. Montagnier (Nobelist in virology), Raoult, Zelenko, Tenpenny, Kory, Marik, Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Atlas, Kheriaty, etc.)
Standard line: "promotion of misinformation about COVID-19" or 'fringe,' etc. I cautiously read Wikipedia often (and donate to it as well) for its summaries of historical events, terminology in fields other than mine, and other NON-politicized entries. But I also cull out obvious mistakes, biases, and omissions, follow their linked references, and take a skeptical view. On current politics, Wikipedia is like WaPo or NYT or Dem campaign literature--useless.
my god, don't give them a penny! I agree that you can look up some objective facts there but for anything else, you can't encourage them. it's like an alternative universe!
I had looked up Malone early in the morning "pandemic" and the article mentioned his patents. a few weeks later, it said only that many people contributed to mRNA vaccines.
I looked up Kamala Harris because I didn't know anything about her. it said that she identified as an American and I thought, "well, that's ok." when I went to show my boyfriend, it had been changed to read "she identifies as African- American"
I share your dislike. In our house it is called WICKEDpedia. The content is often unreliable, but if I need a quick discussion of some technical matter like frame-shifting in protein reproduction or amylopectin, it's an easy-reach source and (usually) not compromised by politics. ( Although I'm always careful to watch for NWO, WEF, Pfizer sneak-ins. 😉) As for Malone, he was the first patent-getter for mRNA, so OF COURSE he's the inventor. Also an astonishingly ethical man.
he was the final speaker at the Brownstone conference at Polyface Farm last year. all the heroes were there. he is there again this year and we already have our tickets. we go to Polyface every summer for events and Brownstone is a new favorite. Bret Weinstein, Jessica Rose, Joseph Varone, Jeffrey Tucker, Ryan Cole, Mary Holland. I can't wait.
yes, for certain technical things, wikipedia is still accurate. just don't give them any money
how many American citizens have been killed by our government's capture by pharmaceutical companies? 100,000 Americans die every year using prescription drugs correctly, something like the 4th highest cause of death. is that too many? who does that? we do.
how many American citizens were killed by covid, an American GOF experiment that went awry? they tried to deny it and blame it on China, which has some culpability but, let's face it, was funded with our tax dollars? how many American citizens were murdered in hospitals, collecting bonuses, with bad top down protocols forced by Dr Fauci who denied them access to safe, effective, cheap repurposed drugs that probably would have reduced the death rate astronomically, all so drug companies could make billions on a poorly researched experimental EPA vaccine that is having catastrophic long lasting side effects. what kind of evil Empire lets hospitals kill their citizens for drug company profit? oh yeah, the USA.
how many American citizens have died of fentanyl overdoses? 90,000 a year? something like that? not being brought in by fishing boats from Venezuela but by the FDA. allowing the Sackler family to in effect write the labels that said it wasn't addictive and then launching a campaign to get doctors to prescribe it at higher and higher doses as often as possible. what kind of country allows it's citizens to be used in that manner? oh. right, the USA.
how many people lost their jobs because of vaccine mandates which violate the Nuremberg Code which was written because of what happened to those jews who moved to Israel so they could treat people as badly as they were treated, having learned nothing except how to string stupid Americans along by continually playing the victim while being the aggressor?
how many American citizens are living everyday with vaccine injuries which are never compensated because the government doesn't have enough money and we have to be at war all the time so that defense contractors can make money. who lets their country rot from the inside so that a few companies can make obscene profits? oh right, the USA.
those human shields? they all volunteered. yeah, yeah, I heard the propaganda about them being handcuffed to bridges but actual journalists in Iran reported the truth. their country is under attack and even if they have problems with their regime, they banded together to show the world what the fucking USA was trying to do to them. you wanna make people loyal to their country, regardless of it's flaws? start bombing them for no reason. that's psychology 101 but obviously the psychopaths who run our country are too stupid to grasp the obvious. bombing a country doesn't make the people hate their country; it makes them hate the country doing the bombing!
there was one guy, an entertainer in Iran, who was always protesting the government but he was out there supporting his country because it was under attack.
BTW, Trump said in an interview that the US smuggled arms to protestors to help them overthrow their government which any moron knows doesn't work and only causes some protestors to be killed. kind of like what happened in Minnesota when that nurse was armed and later killed in a hailstorm of bullets. quick, someone bomb the USA! it's murdering it's own citizens!!
honestly there is no more duplicitous and hypocritical country on the planet than the USA, except for Israel which goes us one better when it comes to defying all human decency.
"how many American citizens have been killed by our government's capture by pharmaceutical companies?"
answer; 250,000 annual deaths for medical ERRORS - plus the general degradation of health from unneeded meds and procedures.
100k annual deaths for following scrips - sounds about right.
Total U.S. deaths from the covid jabs, ~500,000 from everything I've read and followed.
"which any moron knows doesn't work" -glad George Washington was a MORON.... right?
U.S. is hardly a comparison to Iran - but, you're bloviating just like Trump does.
Two people in MSP were killed -- those accidents were waiting to happen. It used to be (and standard operating procedure in the rest of the country, save NYC, LA, etc), that local police would assist ICE. Think about that. Recent deaths "by ICE" hasn't happened anywhere else in the country, that I'm aware of... why is that? The paid off protesters got right in the middle of law enforcement op's. They screwed up royally.
exactly my point. when you fund "professional" protestors and worse, arm them, many feel emboldened to get directly in the face of law enforcement which is a bad place to be.
but that's exactly what happened in Iran. we paid and armed protestors, many of whom got aggressive and then killed when attacking police and soldiers. the death toll was much higher than it would have been (although it wasn't nearly as high as our propaganda reports).
I'm not a bloviator. I leave that to Trump and Hegseth. my numbers on drug deaths were pretty accurate. I was hopeful that Hegseth would return some much needed masculinity to our overly feminized military. now, he's just testosterone run amuck.
didn't George Washington advise us to use our favored geographical advantages to stay out of foreign adventures? had we listened to him, we could have been a functional Republic instead of an Empire in decline.
Your ignorance at this point is hard to believe. 30,000 were not killed. That's Mossad's wet dream. Mossad killed a lot of people (and the Crown Prince begged them to kill more). They have no desire to kill Jews or Americans. Israel did bomb a major synagogue in Tehran, however, killing god knows how many Iranian Jews. You know nothing about internal politics of the country, clearly. The Tudeh Party is the communist party which no Iranian government wanted to deal with. MEK is a terrorist group funded by and collaborating with the CIA. Get your facts right. You are racist and unbelievably ignorant. Or maybe you're just a bot.
Israel also bombed a synagogue in Lebanon. and is bulldozing olive trees that are hundreds of years old. an evil supremacist apartheid country that should not get a dime of our tax dollars
Watch an interview with Gilad Atzmon. These trees are five hundred years old and they've destroyed millions of them--the primary support of their owners' families. Israel need to be dismantled as a country. The U.S. military budget should not be increased to $1.5 trillion either. That will destroy the U.S. economy. We really are on the brink, as much as any other country in this war. The military industrial complex is making weapons that are over-priced and don't even work. Giving more money to them will result in further devaluation of the US dollar which will hurt all Americans (except for the billionaire bros). Israel recently bombed very close to the American University of Beirut which is probably the best university in the Levant. Total morons.
you are 100% correct. I am praying that Iran shows our weaknesses and trims us back some. the Gulf States should ally with Iran. at least they now know that our "protection" is just big talk.
I was listening to Tucker Carlson the other day, his interview with the British journalist who Israel tried to assassinate. I was outside in my garden near my olive tree, which is about 4 years old, when he talked about the olive trees being bulldozed and I wept. how sick does a country have to be to do that? and this is the evil place that we support, that we have to swear has some special right to exist that no other country seems to have. they trample over the rights of others while insisting that their own rights are held on high. fuck them! they worry about growing anti-semitism but when you act like an inhuman creep, you shouldn't be surprised if people hate you..
Iran is in control of the situation. Trump has been check-mated. The only thing he can do is give in. The economic situation at home is dire. I don't like Vance but he's almost an improvement on Trump. I can't believe I wrote that. He's an opportunist. He stinks. He REALLY stinks.
Israel can't survive this. I'm listening to Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski analyze the situation as I write this. She gives me real hope. She says China has warned Israel that if they use a nuke on Iran, that will be the end of Israel. The economy is falling apart. They can't keep fighting because they don't have enough soldiers. Hezbollah is destroying a high percentage of their tanks. We cannot replace them. And I think most Americans don't want to give money to Israel anymore. The Dems have not learned their lesson. They keep supporting Israel. Israel has lost a lot of people and Ben Gurion Airport is not even open.
Here is an interview with Chas. Freeman, one of my favorite diplomats (whom the Zionist lobby demanded not be allowed in the administration, despite his professional background and terrific skills), with Glenn Diesen. Freeman is another person who gives me a lot of hope.
#1 - Who the fuck are you - the guy with all the answers? Prove it wasn't 30k --- or as poster Auld said, it was 3,000 killed. I agree the Iranian citizenry doesn't want to kill Americans or Jews - you're saying the regime doesn't?. You're right though, I don't obsess about the various sects of Iran politics. I'll pass and do trust this admin.
#2 - Call me ignorant to my face, you'll find, I'm not a bot. Visit coastal NC and I'll buy you a few beers. Call me racist to my face - and you'll be spitting your teeth out on the sidewalk. Ignorant? Well, I don't pretend to know it all -- if that's your approach - you lost the rebuttal, before you started.
#3 - I don't trust wiki - but why would they lie about that? So - the rest of their list was accurate, save your claim about Tudeh and MEK?
You prove nothing - except that your an Iranian sympathizer. Good for you! Move there.... btw smearing with bogus attacks, is so 2020. Fuck you.
No. The regime does not want to kill Americans or Jews. It does want to put an end to Israel's aggression against everyone in the region. And it does want the American military to leave the region. I do too. I fully support these goals. Who am I? An American who grew up in Iran so I guess I know more about the country than you do. The Zionists regularly weight wiki entries with their dishonest propaganda. I don't drink. And I recommend you not use telecommunications to threaten people. That's a felony, I think. I am not familiar with the other groups so I don't say anything about them. But you mention Tudeh and MEK as Iranian proxies which is so far from the truth I do not think you know much about Iran. Am I an Iranian sympathizer? I predicted the Revolution when I was just a kid after living there for only five days. I predicted the result of this war before the idiot Americans even began. And on October 7, 2023 I predicted this would cause the end of Israel. I've predicted a lot of other things about the Middle East decades before they happened because I know the region, just as you know NC, one would think. I also predicted back in 1979, even though I wasn't keen about Khomeini taking a leadership role in the Revolution (I wasn't surprised as the CIA usually kills off any moderates who might succeed), that Iran would find a form of government that was culturally appropriate (which the Shah's regime certainly was not) and that in the end it would succeed in its fight for sovereignty and in its support of those neighbors who were being slaughtered by the US and Israel. The US has been on the wrong side of this fight since 1947 so none of this surprises me. FYI, in 1973 the US was paying $30 a barrel of oil. In 2026 it started the year paying close to the same amount despite the outrageous inflation we have experienced since 1973. We should be paying at least $200 a barrel but I know we won't. Not now. I suggest you do some reading and hope some day you can go to Iran to see what a remarkable country it is. I am sure the Iranian government will grow and change--it has already changed quite a lot in response to discontent within its citizenry. But that's neither my nor your business. I want ALL the countries in the region to create the governments their citizens want without any foreign intervention, and that includes Palestine. Our power no longer exists, in any case, and if OUR regime is not to change before the next election we need to keep our mitts to ourselves. I, for one, would like to see our President given a private suite of rooms (one bedroom with attached bath) in a mental hospital. He clearly needs to be institutionalized. Soon. But no American has a right to determine Iran's government for them. That's ridiculous.
"...October 7, 2023 I predicted this would cause the end of Israel..." They're still here. What else are you wrong about?
"The US has been on the wrong side of this fight since 1947 so none of this surprises me." So, America should have bent their knee, 47 years ago?
"I suggest you do some reading and hope some day you can go to Iran to see what a remarkable country it is" I'm sure it's nice. But should I bring my wife? Probably not.
Free markets will determine the price of oil.
"...it has already changed quite a lot in response to discontent within its citizenry." 5 nights ago, your aunts, sisters, daughters and grandmothers - played human shield last Tuesday eve around your energy plants- what has changed?
"I want ALL the countries in the region to create the governments their citizens want without any foreign intervention, and that includes Palestine."
Was Hezbollah involved with regime elimination in Palestine? or the death of Israel - hell you predicted the death of Israel, right?
"Our power gone" guess Iran won't try to control the Strait then, right?
"But no American has a right..." Well, tell your asshole negotiators not to threaten the US with 11 nukes. That's ridiculous? right? How many proxies does Iran fund?
"That's ridiculous...." Iran threatened us - the proxies have been terrorists for decades.... Not your choice, or mine....but after being threatened, we didn't have a choice - we took your asshole negotiators for their word. Blame them... we've been open to negotiating a peace -- now we're getting dicked around by sleeze bags that don't give a shit, how of their many women, die as human shields.
I support normal people that cherish life.... not the assholes that put their women and children out as human shields.... btw What is all this 72 virgin shit in the after life? Are women 2nd class citizens in Iran? Seems they are.
Sorry - you won't have nuclear capability. But the buttheads are arguing for that... Controlling the Strait? - no way after being buttheads and threatening the U.S. - we've no indication, Iran wouldn't follow through with their threat.
FYI. I'm not Iranian. I'm American. I suggest you work on your reading (and thinking) skills. Women in the West are definitely second-class citizens. This administration has been very clear in their attacks on American girls and women. Why do you think Trump has surrounded himself with blond females? If you care about women, tell your foolish President to stop killing them. It'd be nice if he would stop buggering and raping them as well. The US is not going to be controlling the straits. And the American military is not going back to the Gulf states. It doesn't matter what names you call Iranians. The world has changed. Get used to it. The US does not call the shots. Frankly, we don't deserve to. We're so stupid "we", as a country, elected a low-IQ, poorly educated nincompoop who knows very little about the world as president. It beggars the imagination. Well, actually apparently he did not actually win the last election. Surprised?
for energy use, medical use and for deterrents, which they obviously need with the USA and Israel; threatening them all the time. if they had a bomb or were close to a bomb, we would be leaving them alone. when was the last time we interfered with North Korea? oh right, they have a nuclear deterrent
NK - the 1950's. a long time ago, we salvaged South Korea... they're welcome.
So, you do want nuclear capability. I suggest Iran stops their funded terrorist proxies to... stop terrorizing... Perfect example, day one of this war - they shot missiles to all their neighbors.... wtf should we think or react to?
As an Iranian sympathizer, are you proud to know that NK isn't a threat? They have some sort of sanity. Are you proud to know, that after threatening the U.S with 11 nukes on day one of the negotiations - you're not to be trusted and we'll take your asses out - after threatening us.... we know the turd brain Iran regime would follow through on their threats.... NK doesn't threaten us.
And.... you're proud they use women and children as human shields -- it was all over the news last Tuesday.... why don't you move to Iran - you could dress in black, wear a scarf, carry a flag and be a human shield - and hope Iran doesn't threaten the US and their own neighbors?
they shot at American bases in those countries which was quite clever. we have surrounded Iran with our bases and then failed to protect our allies because we were too busy protecting our "chosen" country. too bad. the gulf states need a better ally; they should ally with Iran
no, israel just steals people's land, shoots children in the head for fun and commits genocide. when they say "never again" they only mean when it applies to them. they are happy to do it to everyone else
Israel might be one of the smallest geographic countries on planet earth... what land stealing? Oh, Palestine? Blame the decision makers of the 1940's for that. I'm glad they had a chunk of land to call home - how many Jews were terminated in WW2?
Which children 'were shot in the head for fun' by Israeli's ? You're a crazed liar. How many Israeli children were "shot in the head" 10/7/23? Couple thousand or so?
So, you're 180 degrees wrong on your false claims. Nice try.
it might be small but it wants to be big and is taking everything in it's path. sure I can blame the decision makers in the 40's but they're all dead and they aren't the people committing the atrocities right now. that would be living zionists. which children? you want me to name a child? what about the humanitarian groups who try to bring in aid to the Palestinians only to be blown up and shot at? what about the journalists they murder because they want their crimes hidden?
sure, 10/7 was horrible but you can't keep people down like that for decades, steal their homes, treat them like shiot and not expect some blowback at some point.
tell me how Israel didn't see it coming. no one can get near their wall. they let this happen to give them the moral justification to complete their murderous rampage. but their behavior was too disgusting for the world to give them a pass.
I don't what their spies have on Trump that he gives in to every repulsive demand they make.
So, Iran kills 30K of their own citizens, has a dozen or two of armed proxies to do their killing(s) - like 10/7/23, threaten the U.S. with nukes, etc.... and America are the bad guys. Got it. Move to Iran. You're delirious with TDS.
Iran does not threaten the US with nukes. Iran doesn't have nukes. I voted for Trump so I hardly have TDS. I had high hopes but those hopes have been dashed. Israel must have something really terrible on him to get him to go along with this fool's errand.
and stop repeating the bullshit 30K dead protestors. repetition doesn't make it true
Yes, like North Korea. Neither North Korea or Iran are suicidal. But if the Zionists should be so stupid to use nuclear weapons, three simple gun-type nuclear weapons from Iran would turn Tel Aviv into a radioactive fire storm (Ted Postal). The geniuses who killed Khamenei sr. removed the prohibition on Iranian nuclear weapons. Now they may well produce simple gun-type weapons (the kind used on Hiroshima, not even requiring testing). Deterrence…
On the contrary, Iranians congregating around potential bombing targets were clearly doing so voluntarily, a measure of popular support for their country, willingness to sacrifice for their country. Israel is committing suicide. Trump is committing political suicide. Move to Iran? I’d like to visit that 7000 year old culture some day, but in the meantime I am an American citizen who believes in the constitution. Unfortunately our current government is violating the constitution and committing war crimes in a war of aggression (per Nuremberg).
yes, someone has to defend the people who are being relentlessly attacked by Israel. if those proxies can put down Israel's increasingly criminal and genocidal behavior, good on them!
it's just like Iran. Israel wants them disarmed completely but Iranians know that the minute they disarm, Israel will exterminate them. well Israel won't do any of the work itself. it will deceive it's Shabbos Goy, the USA, into doing all the fighting, dying, bleeding and most of all- paying for their aggression.
you can stop anytime. when I checked, I didn't see where you had taken over the ownership of substack and have no control over who comments. if you continue to write ignorant racist war mongering comments, I'll continue to counter them. you want me to stop? then you stop writing dribble
In any event, the problems of bomb/missile mating and sufficient miniaturization of the former are not trivial. North Korea’s first nuclear devices were too large for its missiles. So it took them years of additional work to miniaturize and compact their warheads to usable scale.
In this context, even Iran’s best current missiles are not fit for purpose. Thus, Iran’s Shahab-3 and Sejjil missiles have significant payload limitations that make them poorly suited for delivering a nuclear weapon. The Shahab-3, Iran’s longest-range operational ballistic missile, has a payload capacity of only about 700–1,000 kg, while the more advanced solid-fueled Sejjil offers roughly 700–1,200 kg.
By contrast, a first-generation nuclear warhead — including the heavy physics package, tamper, explosives, arming and fuzing systems, and re-entry vehicle protection — would likely weigh upwards of 1,500 kg. This means Iran would need to significantly miniaturize any nuclear device before it could be realistically mated to these missiles, which is a complex engineering challenge that has so far eluded them, as well.
In addition, the re-entry vehicle must protect delicate electronics and explosives from extreme thermal and mechanical stresses. Integrating the physics package into such a vehicle while preserving the precise timing required for an implosion is a separate engineering discipline that Iran has never demonstrated, either.
Perhaps the greatest single barrier, however, is testing and confidence. No nuclear weapon state has ever fielded an operational arsenal without some form of full-yield or near-full-yield testing.
That’s because the empirical data from actual detonations are irreplaceable. Computer models and subcritical experiments can only approximate reality. Accordingly, here is the applicable historical record:
South Africa: 0 tests (it built six gun-type devices in the 1980s but dismantled the program without ever detonating one).
Iran, by contrast, has perforce conducted zero nuclear tests because it has never even weaponized a bomb!
The alternative of proxy testing—using conventional explosives to mimic implosion dynamics—can provide useful data, but it cannot replicate the extreme pressures and neutron fluxes of an actual nuclear detonation.
Needless to say, therefore, the absence of any detected full-scale test or credible proxy program since 2003 remains a central pillar of the U.S. intelligence community’s long-standing judgment that Iran has conducted no weaponization activities.
Tulsi Gabbard’s aforementioned March 25–26, 2025, testimony to the House and Senate intelligence committees reaffirmed this crucial consensus in explicit terms. As Director of National Intelligence, she stated that
“the IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”
She noted the unprecedented size of Iran’s enriched-uranium stockpile but drew a clear line between material production and weaponization. Gabbard’s remarks aligned with the unclassified 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, which highlighted Iran’s enrichment progress while underscoring the absence of resumed weapons-design activities.
In short, the 409 kilograms of 60 percent material that has so alarmed the warmongers because it could be upgraded to weapons-grade in weeks was the Ultimate False Flag.
There was never, ever any prospect of an “imminent” nuclear attack on US territory. Full Stop.
The truth is, when the Donald recklessly launched an all-out war on Iran it had no weaponized nuclear device; it had no long-range missile with a heavy payload (over 1,000 Kg) that could get even one-fifth of the way to Washington DC; and had no capability to marry a bomb, which it didn’t have, to a 5,000 kilometer range ICBM, which it didn’t have, either.
The implications of this discussion are uncomfortable in the extreme. They mean that Bibi, the Donald and his war cabinet of neocons, know-nothings and gym rats are operating on the basis of a blatant False Flag that makes all others that have gone before pale in significance.
At the end of the day, the conflation of enrichment processes with bomb-making capacitydefies even the working knowledge of the Washing War Machine itself.
Given the military mayhem it has already engendered and the far worse impending catastrophes of the ground force invasion just around the corner, it can therefore be well and truly said: Donald Trump is fixing to blow-up the global economy based on a Big Lie that anyone actually capable of making a nuclear bomb would recognize as utterly bogus, and instantly so.
The truth of the matter is this: We doubt whether the Donald—who does no homework and reads no briefs on even the daily trivia of governance to say nothing about subjects as complex and information deep as the Iranian nuke matter—has any clue that he has launched a devastating war for no good reason of Homeland Security whatsoever.
But there are a lot of people in Washington—-and most especially denizens of the War Machine—who surely do. But the man has become so irrationally obsessed with his own ego-driven need to prevail at any cost that he is single-handedly ignoring all the contrary knowledge on the banks of the Potomac and is thereby stumbling into the worst kind of reckless belligerence ever contemplated by a US president.
In the next 24 hours, yet another Trumpian lapse into TACO man may save the day. But enough is enough. It’s time to call in the men in white coats and trigger the 25th Amendment, which was enacted to cope with the very circumstance at hand.
In this context, we are reminded of the fable about the mice who concluded that if they could just put a bell around the cat’s neck, they would all be henceforth safe. Alas, no mouse volunteered for the task, but in this case the gods of history are calling out the order quite clearly: JD Vance—you’ve got the Conn.
These propellant lenses are manufactured from two different types of conventional military grade explosives with deliberately different detonation velocities. The faster explosive is typically HMX and TNT-based, while the slower explosive is usually Baratol. These two explosives are cast and machined into complex lens-shaped components. The precise difference in their detonation speeds allows the lenses to reshape multiple detonation waves into a single, perfectly symmetrical spherical shock wave that compresses the uranium pit uniformly.
Again, precision design and manufacturing are of the essence. Accordingly, the high-explosive lenses are carefully bonded and fastened to the inside surface of the outer shell. They are not loose but form a precise, three-dimensional mosaic that completely fills the space between the rigid outer case and the tamper layer.
The entire purpose of these precision-engineered components and the manner in which they are configured within the device is to facilitate incredible levels of simultaneity. That is, at the instant of detonation, these explosives must ignite simultaneously to within nanoseconds, generating a perfectly spherical shock wave that compresses the pit of weapons grade uranium inward. Indeed, the necessary implosion needs to be so powerful that the uranium is squeezed to densities two to three times that of lead.
In turn, squeezing the pit to the requisite densities requires pressures reaching tens of millions of atmospheres. For purposes of comprehension these extreme pressures might be compared to the pressures in a standard automobile tire, which are generally at 2 to 3 atmospheres, not millions.
At the same time, the material is heated to millions of degrees in a fleeting instant. Yet any asymmetry in either the pressures or heating, even on the scale of a human hair, can distort the shock wave, thereby causing the “pit” to squirt out unevenly, and the device to “fizzle,” producing at best a low-yield dud or nothing at all.
The entire process must be timed with sub-microsecond precision, while the device must also remain safe and stable during transport, storage, and launch.
Moreover, even if Iran possessed the necessary high-explosive components and pit metallurgy today, it would still face yet another weaponization hurdle: To wit, the neutron-initiator problem.
The latter sits inside the hollow center of the spherical fissile pit. It is completely surrounded by the weapons-grade uranium. A reliable neutron initiator must flood the compressed pit with neutrons at the precise moment of maximum compression, which would be coming at the pit from the explosive detonators on the outer rim of the bomb.
Producing and integrating these components at industrial scale while maintaining safety and reliability is a non-trivial enterprise, obviously. In this context, US intelligence believes that Iran has conducted some modeling and small-scale experiments, but scaling to a functional warhead requires years of iterative design, subcritical hydrodynamic testing, and computer simulation validated against real data.
Miniaturization and survivability add another layer of difficulty. A crude device weighing hundreds of kilograms might be transportable by truck or ship. But a deliverable weapon that can be mated to a ballistic missile, survive re-entry heating and vibration, and detonate reliably at the intended altitude—usually 1,500 to 2,500 feet for anti-city applications—requires dramatic size and weight reduction and configuration.
And lest there be any confusion here—we are talking about an anti-city weapon designed to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. After all, that’s what the supposed Iranian nuke threat is all about. In this regard, the only other nuclear attacks on cities were—
the Little Boy bomb detonated at Hiroshima at 1,900 feet.
the Fat Man bomb detonated at Nagasaki at 1,650 feet.
And yet and yet. The “obliterated” material was neither illegal, even remotely anything like a real nuke and likely not obliterated, either. Yet the 9,247 Kg of enriched uranium, and especially the 409 Kg of 60% material has became just the latest iteration of the flat-out Big Lie that Netanyahu has been telling for decades.
Indeed, the Netanyahu’s “imminent bomb” lie never stops reincarnating. In the days before the Trump/Netanyahu Feb. 28 attacks, the US and Iran were in productive discussion—during which the Iranian negotiator had explained to Ambassador Witcoff and Jared Kushner that the 409 Kg of 60% material could be made into approximately 10 nukes based on the math of bomb engineering.
Their point, of course, is that like in 2015 they were willing to give up the entirely of the 409 Kg plus most of the 8,838 Kg of fuel grade and medical grade material in return for a comprehensive deal and the lifting of the harsh economic sanctions. That Iranian offer, in fact, has been verified by both British and IAEA representative in the meetings, as well as the Oman foreign minister who had been the chief intermediary.
Unfortunately, the Donald’s negotiators in the persons of his crooked son-in-law and a thoroughly ignorant NYC real estate developer apparently missed the point entirely. They construed it as a threat to make 10 bombs within a matter of weeks, which is absolute baloney that anyone with a modicum of technical knowledge would recognize.
The fact is, enrichment from 60% to 90% is the easy part—it just requires running the centrifuges for another few weeks. The hard part is the engineering steps need to build a functional nuclear weapon from this 90% material, which requires sophisticated design work, precise machining of the core, reliable detonators, and a delivery system that can survive extreme re-entry heat and other stresses.
Stated differently, the dog that hasn’t barked with respect to the “two weeks to a nuke” lie is something called the “physics package” in the trade, which is the sine qua non to make a workable nuke.
The latter requires a precisely engineered device that can achieve supercriticality in a fraction of a microsecond. That is what actually initiates an uncontrolled chain reaction.
In practical terms, this means the fissile material (90% enriched U-235) must be compressed so rapidly, powerfully and uniformly that the number of neutrons produced by fission exceeds those lost to escape or absorption, causing the chain reaction to multiply exponentially in an uncontrollable burst. The entire nuclear explosion unfolds in roughly one millionth of a second — releasing energy equivalent to thousands of tons of TNT before the device physically blows itself apart.
Historically, there have been two basic designs for the physics package: The simpler gun-type device (used only once, on Hiroshima) and the far more efficient implosion-type design (used on Nagasaki and in virtually all modern weapons). According to US intelligence, Iran has never demonstrated mastery of either approach in a deliverable configuration. And that is something anyone can look up via Grok 4 or any similar AI.
In any event, the implosion design favored by all proliferators to date is excruciatingly demanding. It can be envisioned as having a hollow sphere or “pit” of weapons-grade uranium, roughly the size of a grapefruit, at the center of the device. This “pit” is then surrounded by a tamper/reflector and finally around the outside of the latter lies a precisely synchronized shell of conventional high explosives.
The functions of each of these two outer layers, which wrap around the U-235 “pit” of the bomb, are crucial to actually triggering a nuclear chain reaction explosion. And they also involve no mean feats of physics-based engineering and extreme precision during the manufacturing and assembly process.
In this context, the tamper/reflector is made of heavy metal (usually beryllium or depleted uranium) and consists of a precisely machined spherical shell typically 5–10 cm thick, surrounding the uranium pit like an eggshell. It thus sits directly between the high-explosive lenses grafted to the inside of the bomb’s outer wall and the U-235 pit at the center.
The tamper/reflector therefore essentially encases the fissile core and performs two vital roles. First, when the high explosives on the outside shell detonate (see below), the tamper’s mass and inertia resist the outward expansion of the exploding pit for a few crucial microseconds. This “holds the pit together” long enough for many more generations of fission to occur before the entire device blows itself apart. Without a perfectly functioning tamper, the pit would expand too quickly and the chain reaction would fizzle out prematurely.
Secondly, this layer also operates as a reflector much like a basketball backboard, causing any neutrons escaping from the pit to rebound back into the hoop, so to speak. This happens because the beryllium or depleted uranium in this layer is very effective at reflecting neutrons back into the pit rather than allowing them to escape. By bouncing neutrons back into the fissile material, it greatly increases the efficiency of the explosion, meaning less uranium is needed to achieve a full yield.
Finally, the bomb’s outer shell is comprised of a steel, aluminum or plastic sphere, which houses the “high-explosive lens” that are fused to the inside of this outer case. These so-called explosive lenses are essentially the ignition propellants that initially slam into the pit at incredible speeds, pressures and uniformity of impact. So in order for the bomb to work, these high-explosive lenses must be machined to tolerances measured in fractions of a millimeter.
The proof of the bargaining chip pudding could not be more evident in the graph below. During the 10-year run-up to the 2015 nuke deal with the Obama Administration, the Iranians increased their enriched uranium stockpiles to just slightly below the current level, to about 9,000 kilograms.
But in an almost mirror image of the present, fully 96% of that amount was fuel-grade material at <4%, with about 350 kilograms of that material enriched to the 20% purity level for medical grade uses. That is to say, most of the 2015 stockpile was generated as a bargaining chip, and that was exactly its fate.
Upon activation of the JCPOA in 2015, all of the 20% material was destroyed as certified by the IAEA. At the same time, the total stockpile of fuel-grade material was also reduced by 97% to de minimisworking levels, as further certified by the IAEA.
Indeed, Iran ended up retaining only 300 kilograms of its 9,000 kilogram stockpile. As mentioned above, however, the Donald had recklessly canceled the deal in May 2018 on the grounds that it had to be a bad deal by definition because he didn’t negotiate it!
Of course, that foolish move only caused the Iranians to restart the stockpiling process yet again, as is so explicitly depicted by the green line in the graph below. The irony, therefore, is that after the Donald’s feckless June 2025 bombing campaign the Iranians likely had close to 100% of the 9,248 kilograms (including the 409 Kg of 60% material) held before June still in tact.
That’s based on pretty convincing satellite photos showing that all of the Donald’s amateur “art of the deal” head fakery last June about “two weeks to decide” before the actual the bombing runs enabled the Iranians to drive trucks up to the Nantanz and Fordow facilities and remove the stockpiles to safe sites elsewhere.
Stated differently, Obama negotiated the Iran enriched stockpile to down by about 97%, while the Donald bombed roughly the same level of stockpile from 9,248+ kilograms to, well @ 9,248 Kg.
In any event, subsequent to the Donald’s foolish cancellation of the JCPOA in May 2018 Iran responded by gradually increasing its enriched stockpile levels as self-evident bargaining leverage for an expected new round of negotiations. Even then, it continued to allow IAEA inspectors access and publicly stated it would return to full compliance if the U.S. rejoined the deal.
Accordingly, the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates after 2018 continued to assess that Iran was not actively pursuing weaponization. The 2019, 2020, and subsequent NIEs all repeated the core finding: To wit, Iran had not restarted the weaponization program halted in 2003.
The intelligence community’s position remained unchanged even as enrichment levels rose. For instance, an unclassified July 2023 report under the Biden Administration again attested that—
Unclassified ODNI Report on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Capability (July 2023 edition): “Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device…”
Finally, as recently as March 2025 Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified before Congress that Iran still did not have a nuclear weaponization program. She stated the assessment was based on the latest all-source intelligence and that no new evidence had emerged contradicting the long-standing conclusion. Her testimony was direct and unambiguous.
Weeks later, Gabbard’s deputy, Joe Kent, a former CIA officer, essentially confirmed the same point in a public hearing. He noted that while Iran had accumulated more enriched material, theweaponization infrastructure and design work remained dormant.
Needless to say, even the small 420 kilogram (kg) stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (out of total stocks of about 9,200 kg) that the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran had at the time of the subsequent June bombing had been produced for bargaining chip purposes in the context of the negotiations with the Trump Administration then underway.
As a NPT (nonproliferation treaty) signatory and operator of the aforementioned large civilian nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Iran was allowed to have the 7,582 kilograms of civilian reactor grade enriched uranium that the IAEA also certified last spring, as well as the 1,257 kilograms of medical grade uranium (20%).
What was really up for debate was just the 409 kilograms of 60% enriched material in its possession that could be spun to 90% weapons grade in a relatively short time. But for crying out loud, it is goddamn obvious to anyone not looking for an excuse for war that Iran had produced this material as of last June as trading bait for a new nuke and sanctions lifting deal.
That is, in order to get a new nuke deal with Washington to replace the one the Donald himself unilaterally cancelled in 2018, and thereby pave the way for lifting the brutal and demented economic sanctions that Washington has again imposed on Iran.
In short, not even a Houdini could have secretly broken-out of the box contained in the JCPOA agreement and then confronted the world with some kind of fait accompli threat to use the bomb. To do so would have required diversion of thousands of tons of domestically produced or imported uranium and the illicit milling and upgrading of such material at secret fuel preparation plants.
It would also have involved the secret construction of new, hidden enrichment operations of such massive scale that they could house more than 10,000 new centrifuges and the building of these massive spinning arrays from components smuggled into the country and transported to remote enrichment operations undetected by the massive complex of spy satellites overhead and covert US and Israeli intelligence agency operatives on the ground in Iran.
Finally, it would have required the activation from scratch of a weaponization program which had been dormant according to the US National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) for more than a decade.
That’s right. Fully dormant for more than a decade. Yet the threat that the Donald supposedly averted by shit-canning the Obama deal was that the Iranian regime—–after cobbling together one or two bombs without testing them or their launch vehicles—would nevertheless have been willing to threaten to use them sight unseen.
In short, the case against the JCPOA was rampant hogwash. It’s only purpose was to kill the deal so that Bibi Netanyahu would again be in a position of wave the bloody shirt of an Iranian nuke for purposes of domestic politics and keeping his Washington servitors on a short leash!
The truth is, there never was a plausible or rational basis for the Donald’s bombastic claim that the Obama nuke deal was fatally flawed. So in cancelling the deal, what Trump really did was embrace the immense tissue of lies beneath the unwarranted demonization of Iran that Bibi Netanyahu and the Empire Firsters on the banks of the Potomac had fabricated over the course of three decades.
The disposition of the heavy water reactor at Arak is even more dispositive. For years, the Netanyahu neocons had falsely waved the bloody shirt of “plutonium” because the civilian nuclear reactor being built there was of Canadian “heavy water” design rather than GE or Westinghouse “light water” model; and, accordingly, when finished it would have generated plutonium as a waste product rather than conventional spent nuclear fuel rods.
In truth, the Iranians couldn’t have bombed a beehive with the Arak plutonium because you need a reprocessing plant to convert it into bomb grade material. Needless to say, Iran had no such plant, no plan to build one, and no prospect for getting the requisite technology and equipment on the international market.
But even that bogeyman was dispatched by the nuke deal. The latter required Iran to destroy or export the heavy water reactor core of its existing plant and replace it with a core that cannot produce material which can be reprocessed into weapons grade plutonium. All of these requirements were subject to rigorous international inspection and, in fact, were complied with before Trump cancelled the deal.
As to its already existing enriched uranium stock piles, including some 20% medical-grade material, 97% of this material was to be disposed of, and that requirement was complied with, too. Iran ended up with only 300 kilograms of fuel-grade material out of its 10,000 kilogram stockpile.
As it happened, that was an amount that could have been readily stored in the Donald’s wine cellar at Mar-o-Lago. And, in fact, that’s all Iran had at the time of Trump’s cancellation of the JCPOA, according to the IAEA reports.
The deal’s real clincher, however, had been Iran’s agreement to what amounted to a 20-year cradle-to-grave inspection regime encompassing the entire nuclear fuel chain. International inspectors were allowed to visit Iran’s uranium mines and milling and fuel preparation operations, its enrichment equipment manufacturing and fabrication plants and the storage facilities for its centrifuge rotors and bellows production.
Beyond that, Iran had also agreed to and had complied with a robust program of inspections to prevent smuggling of materials into the country to illicit sites outside of the framework facilities. That encompassed imports of nuclear fuel cycle equipment and materials, including so-called “dual use” items which are essentially civilian imports that could be repurposed to nuclear uses, even peaceful domestic power generation.
Not reading any of your comments. I have a life troll girl - you should consider getting on.... or not. Those fact checkers have your head spinning. Not my problem.
Under the JCPOA Iran agreed to dispose pursuant to IEA supervision more than 98 percent of its enriched uranium stockpile of about 9,000 kilograms, even though the overwhelming bulk of it (@8,630 Kg) was fully legal <4% reactor fuel grade material.
Beyond that, it also agreed to dismantle two-thirds of its centrifuges and convert its Fordow facility to research functions only. In return, economic sanctions were to be lifted and thereafter the IAEA was authorized to conduct the most intrusive inspection regime ever applied to any country.
From 2016 through early 2018, moreover, the IAEA issued 12 consecutive reports verifying that Iran had no diversion of nuclear material and no undeclared activities. Enrichment stayed at 3.67 percent — the level needed for civilian power reactors. Stockpiles remained within agreed limits. Iran kept its side of the bargain.
Nevertheless, on May 8, 2018 Trump 45 withdrew the United States from the JCPOA. He reimposed the full suite of sanctions that had been lifted, plus new ones targeting oil sales, banking, and shipping. This so-called “maximum pressure” campaign aimed to force Iran back to the table on harsher terms.
But here’s the thing. Iran had actually adhered to both the letter and spirit of the Obama deal and thereby had put its civilian enrichment program under a system of airtight international safeguards monitored by the IAEA. That is, they made huge concessions on nearly every issue that makes a difference.
This included the number of permitted centrifuges at Natanz, the status of the Fordow and Arak facilities, the disposition of their enriched uranium stockpiles, the intrusiveness and scope of the inspections regime and on braking mechanisms with respect Iran’s so-called “breakout” capacity.
While every signatory of the non-proliferation treaty has the right to civilian enrichment, Iran had agreed to reduce the number of centrifuges by 70% from 20,000 to 6,000 and actually did so after the deal took effect. Moreover, its effective enrichment capacity had been reduced by significantly more than 70% because the remaining Natanz centrifuges consisted exclusively of its most rudimentary, outdated equipment—–slow, low-yielding first-generation IR-1 knockoffs of 1970s European models.
In major part, the 2007 NIE was aimed at debunking a 2002 Israeli propaganda offensive suggesting the opposite—that Iran was close to weaponization. But much of that information came from the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group with a long history of providing fabricated or exaggerated claims to Western governments.
This included a major role in providing the false intelligence about what turned out to be Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMDs. Later investigations, in fact, showed that many of the supposed “Iran has a nuke” documents sourced from the MEK were either planted or heavily edited. So the crucial 2007 NIE effectively debunked the most alarmist of these Israeli claims.
In this time period, President George W. Bush–no wallflower when it came to starting foreign wars—terminated a planned neocon inspired US attack on Iran owing to this same 2007 NIE. As he later admitted in his memoir “Decision Points”, he had been ready to order military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites much like the Donald’s bunker buster campaign of this past June, but the NIE had “pulled the rug out from under” any immediate military option:
“…….The NIE didn’t just undermine diplomacy. It also tied my hands on the military side. There were many reasons I was concerned about undertaking a military strike on Iran, including its uncertain effectiveness and the serious problems it would create for Iraq’s fragile young democracy. But after the NIE, how could I possibly explain using the military to destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence community said had no active nuclear weapons program?”
Thereafter, Iran continued uranium enrichment activities that it had started in 2006 in order to produce fuel grades material (< 4% U-235) for its large nuclear power plant at Bushehr. These were levels far below what is needed for a bomb (90%+ purity) and was done in a manner generally consistent with its obligations as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreement (NPT). During this period (2007 to 2015) Iran’s enrichment activities included a small volume (360 Kgs) of 20 percent medical grade material, but the stockpile remained small and was under IAEA monitoring all the while.
According to subsequent intelligence community findings there was no credible evidence of any resumed weaponization work at Iranian facilities, either overt or covert after 2007. So diplomatic efforts intensified during the Obama Administration, culminating in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
So, the overwhelming heart of the case essentially begins and ends with the “nuke” that Iran doesn’t have and hasn’t been seeking since a small weaponization research project was abandoned in 2003. That was done on the orders of Ayatollah Khamenei who issued a Fatwa proclaiming that the development, stockpiling or use of nuclear weapons is forbidden by Islamic Law.
And, yes, we do adhere to Ronald Reagan’s principle of “trust but verify”. That is to say, the 17 US intelligence agencies—-who’s remit, budgets, manpower and big oar in the policy waters on the Potomac have had every incentive to find reasons for exaggerating the threat of Iran getting a nuke—have been saying loudly the opposite for the past 19 years.
That is. Nope. No cigar. No way Jose.
This started with the 2007 NIE (National Intelligence Estimate), which is a consensus product of all the agencies from the CIA to NSA (National Security Agency) to Army Intelligence to the Department of State and the CGI (Coast Guard Intelligence). This NIE stated with “high confidence” that Iran had had a small, secret research program on nuclear weaponization but abandoned it in 2003:
“We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program… Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.” — U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” November 2007
Why did the population of Iran protest en masse earlier this year, and why were up to 40,000 of them slaughtered in the streets?
According to Natl Archives, 55,220 perished in the Viet Nam war. Iran's losses are near parity and occurred inside of a week--allegedly two days. That is phenomenal murder. In fact, one might as well liken it to war/invasion...of its own population. So, yes Iran has attacked others, wickedly.
The US tried to tank the rial to create anger towards the government, about which they boasted quite loudly. This, after 46 years of severe sanctions which only resulted in Iran developing a surprisingly strong economy independent of the almighty dollar (which has been melting away since 9/11 at an alarming rate because of American aggression in Ukraine and Gaza). A lot of Iranians have been killed by the American sanctions. (The dollar has also lost value due to a great deal of grift by this and other administrations--reference Catherine Austin Fitts.) The demonstrations about the economy were completely peaceful...until Mossad infiltrated and ordered Iranian subversives to kill people at random on the streets and the Iranian government, after noting who had received computers with StarLink with which to receive instructions from Mossad, took action against those committing treason from within (as well as whatever Mossad they could locate). Mossad et al. burned to death unarmed policemen, beheaded innocent Iranians on the street to witness what was going on, etc. The pathetic Crown Prince wanted more dead. He's an embarrassment to the nation of Iran. What a dweeb. He'll never be welcome there again.
The circumstances indeed are important to understand. But you consistently demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to parse out actual evidence. Instead relying on obvious crude propaganda and the production of embarrassing word salad.
If/when the USA govt officially pumps out crude propaganda, then those who use it are granted exemption from source credibility criticism. Still want to criticize, that's fine, but any complaint stops first at the door of the govt.
Amazingly irresponsible denial/rationalization/deflection. You are obviously incapable of researching where these Bulldust numbers came from. But it hardly matters —- you and fellow travelers commenting in this Substack are a drop in the ocean. Alastair Crooke on a recent interview by Chris Hedges gets a quarter million views and 1300+ comments. Trump has committed political suicide. The religious extremists and Zionists here hang on to delusional ideation, apologizing for a war of aggression, war crimes, and worldwide economic depression - Trump Delusional/Dead-ender Syndrome
These days I think facts are bothersome minutia, not to waste time on when you can build your own narrative. No one researches but suck up the dull drone of the lying media.
I don't justify Orange Boy's crazy war, but spare us your bullsh-t. Iran has been far from peaceful.
Iran/Persia invaded Ottoman territory multiple times during the 1700s, launching the Persian-Otyoman War in 1743.
Persia fought five wars with Russia between 1651 and 1828, launching at least three of them. These included territory in present Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
They also launched multiple wars against Afghani tribes in the 1800s.
Iran invaded Iraqi territory from 1982 onwards.
Iran attacked oil tankers linked to EU and Gulf states repeatedly in the 1980s.
Iran invaded the US embassy in Tehran 8n 1979, taking hostages and, you know ...
Iran provided Hezbollah financial, logistical and military support for their 1983 bombings of US and French barracks in Lebanon.
Iran directed and supplied Hezbollah's 1994 bombing of the AMIA Center in Buenos Aires - 86 dead, 350 injured
And the last 40 years of proxy and terror attacks.
The most common reason why a country desires nuclear weapons is for deterrent that is to have freedom from attacks by aggressor the claim that Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon and as soon as I had it, they were going to use it to attack the United States or Israel is simply not believable. This seems to be the false reason to launch a preemptive attack on Iran much like the false claim of weapons of mass destruction was the reason to launch an attack on Iraq.
"Iran has attacked NO country in over three centuries.......Israel has attacked all of its neighbors" - I can't decide if you post is a joke, sarcasm, dishonesty, or just pure ignorance, but no one can be that ignorant of reality.
ACTUALLY, THE MAJOR STICKING POINT is Iran's propensity for being deceitful....i.e. lying, & cheating ---- over & over & over, which is dangerous viewed alongside their past & even current actions and behavior.
NO, I deal with the clear reality of actions & behavior. You deal with something not remotely related to either, but definitely out of stuff you read or, more likely, DON'T SEE IN LEGACY MEDIA. I could go & produce a VERY LONG LIST of Iran's deceitful behavior over & over....I've been witnessing it for a long time. But denial & ignorance like yours should simply be brushed off.
Israel is tiny (some say the size of New Jersey). Surrounded by Muslim nations (Lebanon is the least at 68 percent Muslim). If Israel is such a murdererous state to its neighbors, why have they not used their nuclear weapons? Because despite what Tucker and company say, Israel is focused on defense. Jordan and Egypt have been at peace with Israel since 1994 since peace treaties were signed. Why doesn't Lebanon just sign a peace treaty instead of being at war with Israel since 1947? Israel doesn't chant death to Iran. Yet Iran chants "death to Israel"? Iran was not as hostile and had somewhat peaceful relations with Israel until this regime took control in 1979.
I understand why Israel keeps those nuclear weapons.
You don't know what you are talking about. Israel has been trying to take Iran out since I first got there in 1967. They have always viewed Iran as a competitor. Hezbollah wouldn't have existed if it weren't for Israel's murderous invasion in 2006. Actually, they collaborated with the tiny Maronnite Christian minority in 1982 to enter the Sabra and Shatilla Palestinian refugee camps where they butchered a huge number of people. Lebanon has not been at war with Israel since 1947. Who told you that? You don't know what you are talking about. The countries surrounding Israel (as well as Palestine itself) are multi-religious. Israel has never been defensive. They have been the aggressors since at least the 1920s. Have you never heard of the King David Hotel? Bombing it is how they got the Brits to leave, finally. Ungrateful little shits. Back in 1956 they were bombing Jews in Syria and Iraq, trying to convince them that Muslims were bombing them to get them to leave and move to Palestine so the Ashkenazi could claim the right to even more stolen land. Israelis have always been the aggressors. You have no idea what the Middle East was like before the Ashkenazi showed up. Listen to Gilad Atzmon's interview. And stop making things up. You sound like a child.
Yes. That guy. The link you sent is dated March of 2012, FOURTEEN years ago. I have no idea what that post was written in response to. Perhaps you can find that. But I do know that Atzmon started out as a socialist in Israel on the kibbutz and gradually grew and developed his ideas so that now he completely disavows Israel, and thinks it began to change and become the right-wing genocidal entity it is today. Why don't you read something more current? Has your point of view on this or any other subject not changed since 2012? I certainly hope so.
Perhaps you are. I love Iran. And now I am very, VERY impressed with what they have created under such difficult circumstances in the time I have been in the West. I am delighted by their political goals. It's about time someone stood up to the U.S. Shame on all the countries who were too cowardly to tell the truth and taken action in defense of Palestinians and the Lebanese as Iran has. (And in defense of the Iranians, as well.) I live in the U.S., by the way, because I decided as a teen that Americans being in Iran was harmful to the culture and if I loved Iran I should stay away. There are things I like about the US, but there's a lot I find quite shameful and backward as well. You may find this offensive as well. But you have to leave your culture before you can see it clearly. So I recommend you travel, if you can afford it and are willing to deal with digital IDs. You don't have to go to Iran. Anywhere not the U.S. just so you can see your own country more clearly. And try to develop empathy for others born and living elsewhere.
Since the US is so awful, why are you here? I hope you can relocate to Iran, where you can enjoy the culture completely. Nothing I wrote suggests hatred of the Persian people.
Why is Iran under an internet blackout? To me not letting the people speak reflects negatively on the government. Wouldn't the government want the people to show how terrible the war crimes the US and Israel are committing?
I would love to be in Iran right now. Your posts drip with hatred, Lindsay. And ignorance.
Iran is under an internet blackout because Mossad has used the internet to give orders to the subversive Iranians (fools that they are) inside the country whom they are using to try to bring down the regime. The government is saving lives by limiting internet. Do you understand what is meant by "beheading innocent citizens"? How would you feel if your sibling or parents or kids or best friends were beheaded by foreigners who are sleeper spies in your country? Do you know what it means to be beheaded? And I'm sure Israel is trying to inflict more cybercrimes on Iranians.
Your own government is censoring people on substack. They changed the definition of "domestic terrorists" so that they can do that and worse. They are shadow banning and silencing people here every day.
The American media does not want to show anyone what the US and Israel are doing. In fact, it appears to be refusing to do so. Of course, I don't have a TV and don't follow legacy media. I have better things to do than read or watch interviews that I know are so full of outright lies. Life is short.
@Lindsay - What? Have you read Netanyahu's speeches? For almost forty years, he's been calling for the destruction of Iran, not just war, but complete destruction. Many Israeli citizens want peace. But, Netenyaho is linking Iran to Bible prophecy. He uses the account of the Amalakites in 1 Samuel, where God told King Saul to destroy everything, even children and animals. I've mentioned this several times.
The political system in Israel under Netenyaho is completely crazy. Elections are in October. Netenyaho wants Iran destroyed before the fall. He's furious that there was a two-week ceasefire.
Iran knows this; they will not do any peace without Netenyaho out of the way because he will push the nuke button. You have the nuclear situation ass- backwards. Israel is the problem, and Trump's head is stuck up Netanyahu's ass. Trump is stuck being associated with the crazed Israeli PM. Just now, Vance ended negotiations in Pakistan because Iran wouldn't negotiate. Why should they? They've taken the energy market hostage. America looks like fucking idiots.
Again, Israel, the political apparatus is the problem.
You are correct. Those who argue from your position are blatantly anti Israel and wish destruction upon that little country and the people who want their own self determination, especially after the Holocaust showed them Europe will not provide them with safety.
I am sure Netanyahu is for the destruction of the Iranian regime. In 1979, destroying Israel went from being a radical idea to a core pillar of Iran's national identity.
Tell me then, what does Tehran's doomsday clock signify? You have after all heard if this?
This is religious. Remove the western ideology and western state from the surrounding sea of states that practice Sharia law. We are the great Satan and Israel is little Satan. Iran hates us more than they hate Israel. We are just too far away.
You can't seem to understand that political rhetoric, even hateful speech, is meant for their own population. Don't believe me. How about our political rhetoric that it's Putin's fault? And to tell the truth, the US and British empires are the great Satan to Iran. Review the history over the last 80 years. US meddling in Iran, installing a tyrannical regime after WW2, led to a religious takeover in 1979. Whose fault is that? All you can see is US geopolitical propaganda that Neocons build to get your support for spending Trillions on armaments and useless wars. Before WW2, Iran was a peaceful nation. The British and the US built Israel after WW2. Israel is really a giant military base for Western power in the Middle East. If you want the truth, study the history, not Neocon propaganda.
I used to believe the way you believe. But I now think geopolitics is much more nuanced. I felt I was missing part of the picture. I think lots of what you write has truth-but partial truth. You are missing vast parts of history and the religious influences, and much further back than 80 years.
You are too focused on the USA and Israel which causes blindness to other lesser powerful, but still significant countries. Also how conquest and falls of empires left power vacuums.
I don't know what you are talking about . . .political rhetoric about Putin's fault? I don't even understand what that refers to. Your response to my simple observations is incoherent.
Our country has done unsavory things, but everything is not our fault. I think religion plays a massive role and you are ignoring it's massive role.
We have been at war with these nations since our nation began
President Thomas Jefferson initiated the First Barbary War (1801–1805) to combat North African states (Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis) that were capturing U.S. ships and enslaving crews, demanding tribute for safe passage. Refusing to pay ransom, Jefferson deployed the U.S. Navy and Marines to the Mediterranean, successfully securing safe passage through military force, marking the first major U.S. war outside North America. The conflict involved Muslim nations, and at the time, the Tripoli ambassador cited the Quran and the "laws of their Prophet" as justification for attacking non-Muslim nations and enslaving their people.
Jordan and Egypt have been forced to sign peace agreements with Israel if they want a single dollar of US support. To say that they "have been at peace" with Israel is a real stretch. Israel--that is to say, MOSSAD--trained the Shah's secret police who disappeared, tortured, and murdered Iranians. You don't think that is not hostile? If so, you have no idea what it is to live in a police state, which Iran was under the Shah/CIA/MI6. You reveal more than you realize.
FYI, with the exception of the military who are heavily indoctrinated with racism before they get there, most Americans I know who have lived in Iran for a decent amount of time (at least 3 years and longer) LOVE Iran. Even individuals in the friggin' CIA love Iran.
Believe what you what, Lindsay, if you are a human. Iran bombed Qatar's energy infrastructure because Qatar and other Gulf States allowed the US to have military bases on their land. They warned before the US bombed Iran that this would happen. The Gulf States aren't really countries. They are protectorates created by the West to make sure Western companies controlled the oil supply of the world. The US was especially interested in this because after WWII they tied the US dollar to the buying and selling of oil, thereby artificially inflating the value of oil. The post-war economy of the US has been a scam. We are not "exceptional" (unless exceptionally cruel, predatory, and unethical). The Iranian internet is not back on because Mossad used it to issue orders to subversive cells within Iran. Go ask Israel why Mossad did this. Israelis are paranoid fucks. They are the only real danger in the Middle East. Israel has to be dismantled or it will kill us all. Their infiltration and murder of Iranians was done with your tax money, if you pay taxes. I am not being paid by Iran. In fact, the US government owes hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran from freezing the Iranian assets the Shah stole and invested in American financial instruments in the late 60's and 70's. I would never take a penny from the Iranians for this reason, and to make matters even worse multiple sanctions were instituted by multiple American presidents. This made Iran truly independent. Since Americans are not independent but lackeys to hidden financial interests that control the US government, you would perhaps not understand this. Ali Alizadeh is a great source on this. I suggest you listen to him. He started Jedaal TV. He also has a substack. Some Iranians "in exile" support Israel and Trump because they are traitors. That's the glib answer. To answer this question requires a long explication of what the US and European powers did to Iran during the 20th century and substack software won't allow this. Let's just say the country was raped. They don't like this word because they are proud people and it emasculates them. But even as a young teen this is the term I used. I warned and warned and warned Iranians BACK THEN in the late 60's and early 70's about the damage that was being done to their psyches and culture. I always thought their culture was their most valuable asset and today you can see how right I was. Westerners are incredibly racist and only now, when it affects your pocket books, are you willing to even talk about it. The racism the Westerners inflicted on Iran was intense and intolerable. And these "Iranians in exile" are proof of how damaging it was. Racism is even more damaging to the racist who holds these views. It blinds you. Deal with it. So many people in West Asia have died or been severely traumatized because of it. Take the UK as a warning. They are in dire straits. Their economy is crumbling. Remove the Bank of England (which is a euphemism for the House of Rothschild, the entity that is essential to the establishment of Israel and all these wars--the US financial big wigs are American representatives and puppets for them, like JP Morgan, Rockefeller, etc.) and there would never have been an Israel. Read some economic history. Read about who was behind the Wall Street crash of 1929. I highly recommend the newest book of that title, "1929", by Sorkin. He is a terrific non-fiction writer. It's hard to put down, quite frankly, and the same entities behind 1929 are behind 2008 and other financial crises the US has experienced, including this one. Read it. It should be required reading in every high school. Instead of crying irrationally why don't you listen to what I have written? Or at least give it a think? Is it so threatening to your sense of the world? Or are you even a human being with a mind that can think? No, I was not tortured by Mossad. They usually kill. Torture is labor intensive. Several of my school mates have been murdered by Mossad (that I know of). Read Ari Ben-Menashe's book "Profits of War".
If you are a bot or an employee of the Israeli propaganda machine, don't bother with your little chirping. It's really tiresome and a waste of my time.
Israel has stolen nuclear materials (uranium and krytron switches) from the USA. Iran doesn't have that on their resume. We also cannot ignore the Samson Option that notes Israel will use nuclear weapons.
With Trump's threat to wipe out a civilization we have to assume that it would take nuclear weapons to carry out that threat. If Trump's threat was an idle threat then it was reckless to even assert such a taunt while negotiating with a country claimed to be an imminent threat. How many countries were put on high alert due to such a cavalier attitude by the so called "leader of the free world". We want to have the best kind of leaders to lead us as Americans and instead we keep getting the worst. Trump has lowered the bar to a new low.
Yes. They have supported a move to remove all nuclear weapons from the entire Middle East. In fact, everyone in the Middle East would sign that...except for Israel, of course. Israel won't allow inspections of their nuclear industry, which is why they participated in the assassination of JFK. Iran did send a bomb very near Dimona so Israel would know that if Iran wanted to hit Israel's nuclear installations, they could. But they're too ethical to injure "innocent" (if such a thing is possible, I think not) Israelis.
John, brilliiant and insightful: here is the truth: it is not irrational to want to obliterate Israel, the most destructive state, fraudulently created with great cost, to the entire regioan and to peaceful Arab coexistance. Zionism does not want peace, ever. it wants mayhem for the greater expansion. Having nukes to protect its people from Israel is not irrational, nor is its use. the so called Iran proxies , hamas, Hezbolah, are a direct creation against Zionism, not the other way around.
The Rogue terrorist state, genocidal state is Zionist Israel, we all know it, but dare not say outloud, due to Holocaust blackmail.."you oppose me becuase you want to burn me in ovens."
this trope needs to end now, before Israel/Zionism destroys us all. WE all know this but are terrifed by Aipac money, rich jews in the US OF A, the highjacking of our foreign policy. the US of A , doing Irael;s biz, is the cause of countless millions dead, in Iraq, Aphganistan, Libya, Sudan.
Where is the courageous leader who will terminate Israel's control of US of A.
When you reference the word Zion can you be more specific on what that represents? The origin of the name Zion is from Mount Zion where the Jebusite fortress of the Canaanites in the stronghold of Zion. David conquered the stronghold and renamed it the City of David. The terminology of Zion evolved from there to be associated to a city (Jerusalem), a temple (Solomon), a bank (Zions), and to a political ideology (Zionists) to establish a nation for an ethnocentric Jewish state in Palestine. The later is based on false assertions and deceitful methods in which the state of Israel was forged and in how it operates. The idolatrous thinking is to believe that just because a nation calls itself Israel and uses the term Zionism that it's existence is either divine or reflective of a nation of people who existed thousands of years ago. In fact the opposite seems to be the case as we see a genocidal people who use terror and violence to enact punishment and judgment. We have seen these behaviors throughout history and must recognize them for what they are.
If Israel completely eliminates Hamas and Hezbollah then there will be no more reason for Israel to attack the Palestinians or the Lebanese. Why can’t they seem to eliminate their enemies who have no tanks no anti-aircraft military defensive equipment; their leaders cannot be named or identified, and their troop strength is unknown. Why can’t Israel with all of its military might take out its own enemies. Is it possible that Israel never wants to eliminate Hezbollah or Hamas so they continue to annihilate the Palestinians and the Arabs around them in a slow moving steady genocide?
One could make a strong argument that the most rational decision that Iran could now make is to move forward in developing a nuclear deterrent, following in the footsteps of North Korea, which was largely obliterated by the US Air Force in 1950-53.
And if that day should come, the regime would think that the day has at long-last has arrived: the death of the Great Satan and the Little Satan: will come to pass...or maybe jsut the death of Israel since they are much closer than the U.S...unless Israel receives intelligence what Iran is up to. But I would foresee that that would be the end of Iran's civilization, either by Israel or the U.S.
But I distinctly remember our president saying just 1-2 weeks ago: that he didn't even care about the uranium anymore. What a mystery the guy is, huh. To suggest a bit of levity, which us Irishmen lies to do when tensions arises: Maybe at that point in time when the president said that he didn't care about Iran's uranium, maybe he was thinking, 'ok, now I can at last end their civilization!'
One hasn’t made the argument that “one could make a strong argument that the most rational decision that Iran could now make is to move forward in developing a nuclear deterrent”
Trump says things with full discernment of the relevant listeners, giving the message he wants them to hear.
AS A RESULT OF READING SEVERAL LEAKE POSTS. I am noting...
DR. ROBERT MALONE is far more intelligent and far more intuitive in interpreting and understanding facts and nuances that aren't so nuanced.
e.g. Iran's slogan...."DEATH TO AMERICA"
With Iran's move closer & closer to Nuclear Weapons.....Slogans do matter.
“Death to America” has been CHANTED at state-organized events, EMBEDDED in official commemorations, and ECHOED by senior figures in the regime since the time of Ruhollah Khomeini. i.e. its been engrained into the culture & the minds of zealots in their population."
Enriching to 60% then to 83.7% is a nuclear weapons program.
regime iran's "death to Israel" "death to America" plan has been and still is to be able to use nuclear weapons to destroy both the whole of Israel and major American Cities when they had both sufficient nuclear weapons and "delivery systems"* and a workable plan to sufficiently overcome the defenses* of both Israel and America to the degree necessary to effectively achieve their "death to Israel" "death to America" goal.
*"including smuggling nuclear bombs into American cities and ICBMs and barrages of conventional missiles to use up and overcome Israel's air defenses followed by nuclear tipped missiles.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) be damned. regime iran leadership would protect themselves and yes Iran would be destroyed. regime iran leaders would then continue their world conquest for their "cause". rogue elements, seeing their full plan fading, may not choose to wait until the full plan is ready to go.
As per below - it is naive to not believe - regime iran already assembled numbers of gun - type nuclear weapons, city killers, ready to use no testing needed.
rogue elements within the regime iran nuclear weapons program may well try to destroy some American cities irrespective of regime iran's long term plan.
Enriching to 60% then to 83.7% is a nuclear weapons program. Iran nuclear: IAEA inspectors find uranium particles enriched to 83.7% - 1 March 2023 Bethany Bell & David Gritten BBC News, in Vienna and London from ALTER AI " 🔍 What It Meant 1. Strategic Significance 83.7 % enrichment crosses the psychological threshold: it demonstrates Iran now possesses technical capability for direct weapons‑grade enrichment if instructed - Once a cascade runs at that level, going to 90 % requires adjusting run time, not new technology — a matter of hours or days, not months."
Iran had also done all the other work for bomb construction and intermediate range missile delivery see Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector. has it spelled out here - “Developing A Nuclear Weapon Will Be THE END Of Iran!” - Scott Ritter on The Jimmy Dore Show here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbLrAp0z0mY&t=102s note: at 9:22 into this video Scott Ritter “days! days!”.
ALTERAI - "Hence Ritter’s statement that an operational weapon could be field‑ready in “days! days!” is not exaggeration—it’s the consensus of any serious nuclear engineer who is free to speak without political filters."
This actually was very well known by people who observe the outworking of events concerning Iran's nuclear weapons program and long range missile program. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out. I expect this was not so publicly addressed in the US because why would the US government and military want to discuss this or anything with the media until they were ready.
In the years leading up to 2025 it had become obvious that the regime Iran had progressed to the point that it had the "at will" capability to produce both volumes weapons grade enriched uranium and the nuclear bomb components it needed to assemble city killing size nuclear bombs and to build vast volumes of missiles- at which point the regime in Iran kicked the International Atomic Energy Agency out of Iran.
The controlled media certainly has worked to obscure The Truth. The Trump haters downplay the threat from Iran to try to put Trump in a bad light now that he is actually doing something. The europe globalists did not support any action or conflict that could impede their access to oil so downplaying the truth of growing nuclear weapons capacity in Iran, that would require action, suited them
It looks to me from the following that by 2025 the IAEA did not believe Iran's explanation for the 83.7% enriched particles -
From the IAEA
(e) Regretting that despite the above resolutions by the Board and numerous opportunities provided by the Director General since 2019, Iran has failed to provide the co-operation required under its Safeguards Agreement, impeding Agency verification activities, sanitizing locations, and repeatedly failing to provide the Agency with technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at several undeclared locations in Iran or information on the current location(s) of nuclear material and/or of contaminated equipment,
Derestricted 12 June 2025
(This document has been derestricted at the meeting of the Board on 12 June 2025)
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imo - With all the evidence in plain view, (for those with eyes to see) It is foolishness not to believe and understand that Iran has already assembled numbers of small, simple, Hiroshima type, enriched uranium gun-type fission weapons, city killers. If not more advanced and powerful nuclear weapons. The question is - too little too late?
PS: To President Donald John Trump objective 5 - seize the enriched uranium - do anything and everything YES ANYTHING necessary to locate it and assembled nuclear bombs and then seize ALL of it. Also seize sufficient Iranian oil to fully pay for this just war, over time, so that income is also available so the people in Iran will not suffer needlessly. Unless objective 5 is met, at some time, expect to see a mushroom cloud over New York City and a mushroom cloud over Washington, DC. Bombs smuggled into Our America, perhaps concealed, hidden within a few tons of cocaine, or brought across our border by a small force of elite Iranian special forces prepared to kill any opposition that law enforcement could be expected to mount, with "clean" transfer vehicles pre-positioned for use as needed to continue their stealth attack. Nuclear bombs then driven into Our Major Cities - BOOM
Iran‘s death threats don’t mean too much now as both Israel in the United States have clearly made public statements that they want to annihilate Iran; bomb it back into the Stone ages like Gaza and they want to see annihilation of Persian civilization. I wouldn’t take anything that Iran says to be more heinous than Israel or the United States.
Religion, that which is worshipped, is the strongest motivating force in species Homo sapiens. It is stronger than the instinct of self preservation, or the mating instinct. It is for this reason that the eschaelogical beliefs of the Twelvers will be the biggest determinant of their actions going forward. The only mitigating factor will be the secularist segment of Iranian society.
I'm confused by your argument against MAD. If I'm reading it right, your counter evidence doesn't argue against MAD but rather against national suicide. But they don't want suicide, they want what amounts to murder + suicide - if the 12th Imam eschatology is correct.
Interestingly, 60% of the population is the number of Christians living in Iran. No one ever talks about that. The oldest Christian sects in the world are in Iran.
Jeremiah 49:34-39 is a remarkably accurate description of the situation with Iran. It says that there is going to be a mass exodus from Elam, which is the ancient name for a portion of Iran--in particular, the portion where the weapons grade uranium is kept. There is zero chance that Israel exits this conflict with that uranium intact. The Muslims have promised to annihilate Israel. Why should Israel wait to be annihilated? So, Israel will strike that stockpile and there will be a nuclear catastrophe. It is possible that United States/Israel will strike Iran's desalination plants and power plants and that would cause an exodus, but that is less likely.
I, who like millions of my kind (America Firsters) put Trump back into office, would rejoice if he were executed for his High Treason and Crimes Against Humanity. Death to Trump and his Jewish Masters.
It doesn't make sense to me that Iran didn't give up the uranium in 1963 and here we are in 2026 is again expected too? That is absolutely crazy! Why would they?
But Israel has nuclear weapons, I have never understood why others can't. Do you think one is more aggressive than the other by their actions? Who has been attacking who? The ones that have it, like NK, Pakistan, etc never get attacked. I don't hear that being discussed. Scott Ritter says Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. So what is all the panic about ? I should say "aggression".
Very good use of AI. The statement “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” might very well be true. Thank you John, for your thoughts!
Iran has attacked NO country in over three centuries, Israel has attacked all of its neighbors and threatened destruction on countries further afield. The head of Iran banned nuclear weapons development in Iran and he was murdered by the USA and Israel. Look at the facts.
Iran is continuously attacking Israel through proxies, and has attacked Israel directly last year. Iran has been at war with the United States since 1979.
Surely you've seen John Leake go over the history several times in these threads. A quick summary on the years warhawks never mention:
1908, oil discovered in Iran, Britain takes the majority of the profits
1950, Iran proposes a 50/50 split as provided to the Saudis and others; turned down
1953, Iran nationalizes its oil
1953, CIA and MI6 overthrow the democratically elected president of Iran, install U.S. puppet, The Shah
1979, after years of murder, torture, and abuse, the Shah, is overthrown (thus beginning the 47 years of discord with the U.S. while ignoring our previous provocations)
1980-88, Iraq under U.S. puppet Saddam Hussein invades Iran, egged on by U.S. money, arms, and chemical/biological weapons. Iran finally wins, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
Iran has not been at war with the U.S., no imminent threat existed (instead, we killed their negotiators), a declaration of war was required but not requested, and the US. attack on Iran is almost certainly an illegal war of aggression under international law, the kind outlawed by the Nuremberg Code. Iran seems to have the upper hand on the ground, and Trump needs a quick agreement to re-open the strait to save not only his presidency but the world economy.
well, he won't get an agreement with his terms. did you see JD Vance's embarrassing attempt at explaining away Iran's demand that israel stop invading and massacring Lebanon? "oh, that was a misunderstanding. it was never on the table." misunderstanding, my ass. you can't enter a negotiation if you've already decided that you are the "great" "victor" and the other country is only there to agree and sign away it's sovereignty.
when Trump said that Iran's 10 point plan was the basis of the negotiation, had he bothered to read it first? then the next day, Leavitt says "it's garbage; we threw it in the trash." no honey, it reflects reality. you don't set the terms when you lose.
then again, Mearsheimer says Vance is in a terrible position because all he can do is admit defeat and agree to Iran's demands which will end any hopes he has of being the next President and probably destroy his relationship with his boss who seems to like only yes men who deliver "wins," even imaginary ones.
this same thing happened with the Russia/Ukraine war and our clown car attempts at "diplomacy." you can't demand that the winner on the battlefield make concessions and the US needed to enter those talks knowing that it was in the losing position. but of course, the US of A is always the "good" guy and always the "winner" at least in the deluded minds of our "war" department.
Interesting that the description of 1979 presented here makes no mention of the theocratic takeover by mad Mullahs who seek a global caliphate, necessitating destruction of the West, to be achieved by washing the world in blood of unbelievers and burning it under the fire of mad Islam, and who in the meantime make do with oppressing its own people, including women and infidels, and harrassing its neighbors. Nuclear in their hands would be no biggie. Iran is somehow still just some group of poor old country boys just trying to get by after finding some gold in their backyard. Going back further, interesting that the rationale for rejecting the so-called 50/50 offer was omitted, as was context for what an act of nationalizing (oil) really means to those other stakeholders at the time. I see the rants here about “Iran good, ‘Merica bad”. People are welcome to their opinion but I’m not buying what they’re selling.
Very unlikely anybody is saying "Iran good." More like "Iran is a victim of Britain, Russia, Israel, and the U.S.," with understandable enmity for its oppressors. As a mental exercise, imagine your country being exploited by foreigners for a century? I have no idea how popular the mullahs were in 1979, but clearly the Shah was hated. And by extension, his puppetmasters. Similarly, if the Democrats win in 2028, it won't be because they're universally loved, but because Trump screwed up so chumpily. He should have been another Washington, a savior of his country, but he blew it, probably due to blackmail or bribery.
The world is rarely neat and bowtied. Trump is doing what needs doing. It’s surprising to me that is not recognized.
https://www.billoreilly.com/b/Disruption/-391915136375458796.html
Doing what needs doing--words spoken by probably every despot in history, and their supporters, but not really an argument. Sometimes the despots won, though at great cost, other times they got hung from lampposts or worse. See how recognized Trump and the U.S. will be in six months if the strait is still closed and we're in a worldwide depression (remember, the strait was open until Trumpanyahu attacked, and Trump was warned it would be closed as a result). There may never have been a financial situation (massive debts and leverage) less able to handle an energy disruption, and there is infrastructure at risk in the Persian Gulf states that would take 10 years to rebuild.
John Leake has a gigantic "tunnel vision" problem which is especially noteworthy given the gigantic complex issues he has decided to deal with thru his peep hole.
Give an example or two. I'd say that considering the 100-plus year history of British and U.S. encroachment on Iran is a much broader analysis than the peephole/tunnel-vision view that, for example, "Iran attacked Israel last year" (presumably after the U.S. bombed Iran in June 2025). If you start a fistfight in a bar and the other guy pulls a knife, shooting him dead will not be accepted as a self-defense killing you initiated the violence. Same logic should apply to nations.
israel's horrid aggressive entitled behavior makes all it's neighbors pre-emptive enemies. those "proxies" are necessary self defense against a supremacist sliver of a country that couldn't survive more than a few weeks if the US would just (please, i'm begging) withdraw it's support but wants all the land in sight and is willing to steal homes and murder the inhabitants. if i had a "neighbor" like israel, i'd want me a well armed proxy too!
The key passage from the Constitution of the Iran (Article 154), translated into English:
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has as its ideal human felicity throughout human society, and considers the attainment of independence, freedom, and rule of justice and truth to be the right of all people of the world.
Accordingly, while scrupulously refraining from all forms of interference in the internal affairs of other nations, it supports the just struggles of the oppressed (mustazafin) against the arrogant (mustakbirin) in every corner of the globe.”
What this means in practice
• “The oppressed” (mustazafin) is a broad, ideological category—not tied to any one country.
• Iranian authorities interpret this as applying strongly to Palestinians.
• That’s why support for Palestine is framed as constitutional in spirit, even though the word “Palestine” does not appear.
Your comment is laughable......Do you realize that Hamas' ruling Covenant called for GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS & elimination of the state of Israel. By your logic, Since it's in their Covenant, it must make their Genocidal goals perfectly OK. BTW: HAMAS IS BACKED & FINANCED BY IRAN.
Hamas' Covenant: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas
I especially like...Hamas is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. It has called on members of the other two Abrahamic faiths—Judaism and Christianity—to accept Islamic rule in the Middle East. “It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the SOVEREIGNTY of Islam in this region"
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/israel-law-review/article/hamas-october-7th-genocide-legal-analysis-and-the-weaponisation-of-reverse-accusations-a-study-in-modern-genocide-recognition-and-denial/322198E636341BE82F37ED7147FEB0F5
since the Isr**lis want to genocide everyone on earth, who could blame Hamas?
You should live in Iran for a while, and then come back and tell me how it went. Women don't fare well in Iran. Here's some info from a woman who was born there and grew up there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyI-Djv9llw&t=86s
50% of college professors in Iran are women. i'd say they are faring pretty well
I´m not going to watch it. I know those women first hand, in person.
. . . or you know the truth and don't want to be confronted with it. By the way, have you lived in Iran?
Have you?
The United States has been at war with Iran since the times of Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell, at least.
thank god for proxies! if it wasn't for Hezbollah, Lebanon and it's people would be completely overrun and slaughtered by the homicidal, genocidal, maniacal IDF. Isr**l wants every country around it to be completely without defenses so they they can walk in, kill everyone and steal the land. good for Iran for including the protection of Lebanon in it's demands. someone needs to cut BiBi down to size and stop the USA in it's end stage Empire in collapse rampage. BiBi has a country; let him stay within it's borders and learn how to get along with his neighbors instead of relying on the big bad USA to pay all it's bills and fight all it's battles. he's always whining that everyone wants to kill "his people" but since he wants to kill everyone, who could blame the rest of the world for LOATHING this terrible country? how many trillions has the USA wasted trying to keep this spoiled bad boy in line? these horrid people are bulldozing ancient olive trees! blowing up heritage sites. Fuck Isr**l.
ah yes, Israel, Israel, always the victim, never the aggressor. always playing the beleaguered jewish mother schtick. bullshit!!
those "proxies" serve to defend the local villages from Israel's constant attacks. without Hezbollah fighting back, Israel would kill every living thing in Lebanon and turn it into rubble. they've bulldozed centuries old olive trees! what kind of sick people destroy such ancient life?
Iran has been at war with no one. the USA has been at war with Iran for over 70 years. we over threw their government, installed our police state puppet, have been sanctioning them forever, and can't deal with any other countries doing well.
I'm hoping Iran can cut the terrorist Empire that the USA has become back to size. it's a big ask, I know.
as for Israel, that it exists at all with it's paranoid genocidal intentions, was an arrogant British ploy to get the troublesome jews out of Europe. who were they to give already inhabited land to a bunch of people who had only the most tenuous connection to that land and give them license to steal, murder and marauder the population that had been there for eons?
Iran has attacked many countries thru its funding of the terror activities of Hamas, Hezbollah, & the Houthis.
Such attacks reflect a long pattern of ASYMMETRIC warfare by Iran against its neighbors & U.S. interests using those deniable proxies to avoid direct confrontation, i.e. They're cowards and liars.
when the USA uses proxies to foment unrest in other countries or to fight wars, as in sacrificing Ukraine in a futile attempt to weaken Russia, do we qualify as cowards and liars? the only correct answer to that question is YES!!
since the USA decides what groups to call "terrorists" based on the demands of the real terrorist in the region, i would say that those groups provide a needed self defense against the aggression of the one country that American taxpayers fund to commit genocides
If you're going to trot out your Anti-Semitism at least do it in a post that makes sense.
It´s not asymmetric warfare. It´s their Constitution. As per ChatGPT:
The key passage from the Constitution of the Iran (Article 154), translated into English:
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has as its ideal human felicity throughout human society, and considers the attainment of independence, freedom, and rule of justice and truth to be the right of all people of the world.
Accordingly, while scrupulously refraining from all forms of interference in the internal affairs of other nations, it supports the just struggles of the oppressed (mustazafin) against the arrogant (mustakbirin) in every corner of the globe.”
What this means in practice
• “The oppressed” (mustazafin) is a broad, ideological category—not tied to any one country.
• Iranian authorities interpret this as applying strongly to Palestinians.
• That’s why support for Palestine is framed as constitutional in spirit, even though the word “Palestine” does not appear.
Naive. Iran must be stripped of its capability to wreak nuclear havoc. Trump understands this while doing the hard part of leadership. LinkedIn corporate kumbaya leaders need not apply.
Iran has no "capability to wreak nuclear havoc;" if they did, we would not be bothering them now
They don’t thanks to Trump’s actions, and can never be allowed.
nothing to do with Trump! he tore up the agreement Iran had signed prior to his election
They are liars and terrorists that seek the destruction of America and the West. They only know the language of strength.
Delusional (Trump Delusional/Dead-ender Syndrome)
Quarter million views, 1300 comments:
https://youtu.be/_RKEjfIDEys?si=7XsngW3M-RXOMPSv
unlike the US government which is "always" truthful and never uses force to bend other countries to it's awful will. watch out, your bigotry and ignorance are on full display.
If he banned, why have enriched uranium?
Ever heard of Hezbollah, Houthi's and the other terrorist groups, funded by Iran? Hezbollah had plenty to do with 10/2023 invading Israel - right?
Guess you're saying, they had nothing to do with 9/11.
So, Iraq started their war? Maybe they did.
Iran scatter shot all their neighbors day one of the current war. Israel has never done that, that I'm aware of.
More Iranian armed proxies
-I'm no fan of wiki, but this is what they have;
Armed groups:
MEK
Tudeh Party
Peykar
Furqan
Iran NEQAB
Union of Iranian Communists
Union of Communist Militants
Workers' Way
Fedaian (majority)
Fedaian (minority)
Fedai Guerrillas
Laborers' Party
Turkmen People's Cultural and Political Society
Separatists:
KDPI
Komala
DRFLA
PFLA
AFLA
Presenting Iran as squeaky clean - is bullshit, imo
So, 30,000 Iranians that were killed ( a few months ago) for protesting, doesn't count against them? They want to kill all Jews and Americans - guess that doesn't count.
That the Iranian negotiators bragged about having the uranium and their ability to make 11 nukes -- on the first day of negotiations... is telling, I'd say.
No idea why you, or anyone, wants to defend Iran.
Anything you find about Iran in Wikipedia should be verified by other sources. Wikipedia is notorious for bias when it comes to controversial political issues, and there is evidence that the bias is inserted by British and American intelligence.
As for the assertion that "30,000 Iranians that were killed (a few months ago) for protesting", the actual figure is more in the range of 3,000, and these particular protests featured Mossad agents (publicly admitted by Israeli intelligence) and protesters equipped with weapons who assaulted police. The "30,000" claim is a classic example of a propaganda smear that is amplified by constant repetition.
Exaggerated claims for political gains should be considered with any claim in the news used for political advantages like numbers of civilians killed in Iranian protests should be looked at speculatively one needs to consider careful investigation of what occurred and ask the question were the protesters encouraged or incited by operatives from Israel or the United States? Were they armed and was this done all to set up a preemptive attack on Iran by Israel in the United States
Ask Wikipedia anything you want about covid and you'll think you were on mind altering drugs when it played out.
I heard 40 babies were beheaded along with the 30,000 protestors killed! And other babies were tossed for sport on bayonets! And incubators were overturned and those babies left to die on the cold, hard floor! I heard it from unimpeachable sources--the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter living in DC and the U.S. PR firm representing Kuwait! If Iran won't give up its nucl'er ambitions and kiss Trump's butt live on the TV, then that whole backward excuse of a country, more'n twice the size of Texas, must be nuked! Turned into glass! It's just common sense! I can't believe everybody doesn't agree with me! Why even the Eye-ran rebels are begging us to do it!!
maybe they cut out the tongues of 50,000 protestors and the appendixes of 90,000! sweet, how you can just make shit up and use it to justify your homicidal fantasies
I give you examples of war propaganda, and your conclusion is that I make things up? Tell me, did Hamas behead 40 babies during the 10/7/2023 incursion? Because though that accusation was reported at the time, including by Amtrak Joe Biden, even the Israelis have declined to confirm it.
As people have noted at least since World War I, "Truth is the first casualty of war." The lie about Kuwaiti babies being killed by Iraqis is even more fully discredited than the 40 Israeli babies. An AI summary:
"The claim that Iraqi soldiers removed Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them on the cold floor to die was a central piece of propaganda used to build public support for the 1991 Gulf War. This narrative was primarily driven by the emotional testimony of a 15-year-old girl identified only as Nayirah, who appeared before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus in October 1990.
"It was later revealed that Nayirah was the daughter of Saud Nasir al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States, and that her testimony was orchestrated by the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton on behalf of the Kuwaiti government. Human rights groups like Amnesty International and subsequent investigations found no evidence that such atrocities occurred on the scale described, with many medical workers in Kuwait denying the existence of the incident. Despite being exposed as a fabrication, the story had a significant impact on American public opinion and the decision to authorize military force against Iraq."
And remember, before Iraq became our enemy, it was our proxy army for the invasion and war on Iran between 1980 and 1988.
Wikipedia is well-known for its leftist bias. Read what is written about covid heroes Drs. McCullough. Montagnier (Nobelist in virology), Raoult, Zelenko, Tenpenny, Kory, Marik, Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Atlas, Kheriaty, etc.)
Standard line: "promotion of misinformation about COVID-19" or 'fringe,' etc. I cautiously read Wikipedia often (and donate to it as well) for its summaries of historical events, terminology in fields other than mine, and other NON-politicized entries. But I also cull out obvious mistakes, biases, and omissions, follow their linked references, and take a skeptical view. On current politics, Wikipedia is like WaPo or NYT or Dem campaign literature--useless.
my god, don't give them a penny! I agree that you can look up some objective facts there but for anything else, you can't encourage them. it's like an alternative universe!
I had looked up Malone early in the morning "pandemic" and the article mentioned his patents. a few weeks later, it said only that many people contributed to mRNA vaccines.
I looked up Kamala Harris because I didn't know anything about her. it said that she identified as an American and I thought, "well, that's ok." when I went to show my boyfriend, it had been changed to read "she identifies as African- American"
they've limited their own usefulness
I share your dislike. In our house it is called WICKEDpedia. The content is often unreliable, but if I need a quick discussion of some technical matter like frame-shifting in protein reproduction or amylopectin, it's an easy-reach source and (usually) not compromised by politics. ( Although I'm always careful to watch for NWO, WEF, Pfizer sneak-ins. 😉) As for Malone, he was the first patent-getter for mRNA, so OF COURSE he's the inventor. Also an astonishingly ethical man.
he was the final speaker at the Brownstone conference at Polyface Farm last year. all the heroes were there. he is there again this year and we already have our tickets. we go to Polyface every summer for events and Brownstone is a new favorite. Bret Weinstein, Jessica Rose, Joseph Varone, Jeffrey Tucker, Ryan Cole, Mary Holland. I can't wait.
yes, for certain technical things, wikipedia is still accurate. just don't give them any money
Fair points.
Are you telling me, that the proxy list is wrong?
So, 3,000 murders of your own citizens, is OK b/c it's not 30,000? Links to back that statement of 3k vs 30k?
My understanding, is the Iranian citizenry can't own fire arms. They'll kill you - for less.
Links to corroborate these armed attacks? I didn't see that with the MSM clips shown. Links to back that statement up?
Did you see the mostly women - as a human shield around their energy plants last Tuesday evening?
how many American citizens have been killed by our government's capture by pharmaceutical companies? 100,000 Americans die every year using prescription drugs correctly, something like the 4th highest cause of death. is that too many? who does that? we do.
how many American citizens were killed by covid, an American GOF experiment that went awry? they tried to deny it and blame it on China, which has some culpability but, let's face it, was funded with our tax dollars? how many American citizens were murdered in hospitals, collecting bonuses, with bad top down protocols forced by Dr Fauci who denied them access to safe, effective, cheap repurposed drugs that probably would have reduced the death rate astronomically, all so drug companies could make billions on a poorly researched experimental EPA vaccine that is having catastrophic long lasting side effects. what kind of evil Empire lets hospitals kill their citizens for drug company profit? oh yeah, the USA.
how many American citizens have died of fentanyl overdoses? 90,000 a year? something like that? not being brought in by fishing boats from Venezuela but by the FDA. allowing the Sackler family to in effect write the labels that said it wasn't addictive and then launching a campaign to get doctors to prescribe it at higher and higher doses as often as possible. what kind of country allows it's citizens to be used in that manner? oh. right, the USA.
how many people lost their jobs because of vaccine mandates which violate the Nuremberg Code which was written because of what happened to those jews who moved to Israel so they could treat people as badly as they were treated, having learned nothing except how to string stupid Americans along by continually playing the victim while being the aggressor?
how many American citizens are living everyday with vaccine injuries which are never compensated because the government doesn't have enough money and we have to be at war all the time so that defense contractors can make money. who lets their country rot from the inside so that a few companies can make obscene profits? oh right, the USA.
those human shields? they all volunteered. yeah, yeah, I heard the propaganda about them being handcuffed to bridges but actual journalists in Iran reported the truth. their country is under attack and even if they have problems with their regime, they banded together to show the world what the fucking USA was trying to do to them. you wanna make people loyal to their country, regardless of it's flaws? start bombing them for no reason. that's psychology 101 but obviously the psychopaths who run our country are too stupid to grasp the obvious. bombing a country doesn't make the people hate their country; it makes them hate the country doing the bombing!
there was one guy, an entertainer in Iran, who was always protesting the government but he was out there supporting his country because it was under attack.
BTW, Trump said in an interview that the US smuggled arms to protestors to help them overthrow their government which any moron knows doesn't work and only causes some protestors to be killed. kind of like what happened in Minnesota when that nurse was armed and later killed in a hailstorm of bullets. quick, someone bomb the USA! it's murdering it's own citizens!!
honestly there is no more duplicitous and hypocritical country on the planet than the USA, except for Israel which goes us one better when it comes to defying all human decency.
"how many American citizens have been killed by our government's capture by pharmaceutical companies?"
answer; 250,000 annual deaths for medical ERRORS - plus the general degradation of health from unneeded meds and procedures.
100k annual deaths for following scrips - sounds about right.
Total U.S. deaths from the covid jabs, ~500,000 from everything I've read and followed.
"which any moron knows doesn't work" -glad George Washington was a MORON.... right?
U.S. is hardly a comparison to Iran - but, you're bloviating just like Trump does.
Two people in MSP were killed -- those accidents were waiting to happen. It used to be (and standard operating procedure in the rest of the country, save NYC, LA, etc), that local police would assist ICE. Think about that. Recent deaths "by ICE" hasn't happened anywhere else in the country, that I'm aware of... why is that? The paid off protesters got right in the middle of law enforcement op's. They screwed up royally.
exactly my point. when you fund "professional" protestors and worse, arm them, many feel emboldened to get directly in the face of law enforcement which is a bad place to be.
but that's exactly what happened in Iran. we paid and armed protestors, many of whom got aggressive and then killed when attacking police and soldiers. the death toll was much higher than it would have been (although it wasn't nearly as high as our propaganda reports).
I'm not a bloviator. I leave that to Trump and Hegseth. my numbers on drug deaths were pretty accurate. I was hopeful that Hegseth would return some much needed masculinity to our overly feminized military. now, he's just testosterone run amuck.
didn't George Washington advise us to use our favored geographical advantages to stay out of foreign adventures? had we listened to him, we could have been a functional Republic instead of an Empire in decline.
Your ignorance at this point is hard to believe. 30,000 were not killed. That's Mossad's wet dream. Mossad killed a lot of people (and the Crown Prince begged them to kill more). They have no desire to kill Jews or Americans. Israel did bomb a major synagogue in Tehran, however, killing god knows how many Iranian Jews. You know nothing about internal politics of the country, clearly. The Tudeh Party is the communist party which no Iranian government wanted to deal with. MEK is a terrorist group funded by and collaborating with the CIA. Get your facts right. You are racist and unbelievably ignorant. Or maybe you're just a bot.
Israel also bombed a synagogue in Lebanon. and is bulldozing olive trees that are hundreds of years old. an evil supremacist apartheid country that should not get a dime of our tax dollars
Watch an interview with Gilad Atzmon. These trees are five hundred years old and they've destroyed millions of them--the primary support of their owners' families. Israel need to be dismantled as a country. The U.S. military budget should not be increased to $1.5 trillion either. That will destroy the U.S. economy. We really are on the brink, as much as any other country in this war. The military industrial complex is making weapons that are over-priced and don't even work. Giving more money to them will result in further devaluation of the US dollar which will hurt all Americans (except for the billionaire bros). Israel recently bombed very close to the American University of Beirut which is probably the best university in the Levant. Total morons.
you are 100% correct. I am praying that Iran shows our weaknesses and trims us back some. the Gulf States should ally with Iran. at least they now know that our "protection" is just big talk.
I was listening to Tucker Carlson the other day, his interview with the British journalist who Israel tried to assassinate. I was outside in my garden near my olive tree, which is about 4 years old, when he talked about the olive trees being bulldozed and I wept. how sick does a country have to be to do that? and this is the evil place that we support, that we have to swear has some special right to exist that no other country seems to have. they trample over the rights of others while insisting that their own rights are held on high. fuck them! they worry about growing anti-semitism but when you act like an inhuman creep, you shouldn't be surprised if people hate you..
thank you, I'll look up this interview
Iran is in control of the situation. Trump has been check-mated. The only thing he can do is give in. The economic situation at home is dire. I don't like Vance but he's almost an improvement on Trump. I can't believe I wrote that. He's an opportunist. He stinks. He REALLY stinks.
Israel can't survive this. I'm listening to Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski analyze the situation as I write this. She gives me real hope. She says China has warned Israel that if they use a nuke on Iran, that will be the end of Israel. The economy is falling apart. They can't keep fighting because they don't have enough soldiers. Hezbollah is destroying a high percentage of their tanks. We cannot replace them. And I think most Americans don't want to give money to Israel anymore. The Dems have not learned their lesson. They keep supporting Israel. Israel has lost a lot of people and Ben Gurion Airport is not even open.
Here is an interview with Chas. Freeman, one of my favorite diplomats (whom the Zionist lobby demanded not be allowed in the administration, despite his professional background and terrific skills), with Glenn Diesen. Freeman is another person who gives me a lot of hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb0vegr3nf0
I tend to hate destructive people too, but then I listen to Alan Watts and it helps me to see things more clearly (if only for a while:) https://rogerrobinson.org/AlanWatts_MetaphysicsAndMorals.mp3
#1 - Who the fuck are you - the guy with all the answers? Prove it wasn't 30k --- or as poster Auld said, it was 3,000 killed. I agree the Iranian citizenry doesn't want to kill Americans or Jews - you're saying the regime doesn't?. You're right though, I don't obsess about the various sects of Iran politics. I'll pass and do trust this admin.
#2 - Call me ignorant to my face, you'll find, I'm not a bot. Visit coastal NC and I'll buy you a few beers. Call me racist to my face - and you'll be spitting your teeth out on the sidewalk. Ignorant? Well, I don't pretend to know it all -- if that's your approach - you lost the rebuttal, before you started.
#3 - I don't trust wiki - but why would they lie about that? So - the rest of their list was accurate, save your claim about Tudeh and MEK?
You prove nothing - except that your an Iranian sympathizer. Good for you! Move there.... btw smearing with bogus attacks, is so 2020. Fuck you.
No. The regime does not want to kill Americans or Jews. It does want to put an end to Israel's aggression against everyone in the region. And it does want the American military to leave the region. I do too. I fully support these goals. Who am I? An American who grew up in Iran so I guess I know more about the country than you do. The Zionists regularly weight wiki entries with their dishonest propaganda. I don't drink. And I recommend you not use telecommunications to threaten people. That's a felony, I think. I am not familiar with the other groups so I don't say anything about them. But you mention Tudeh and MEK as Iranian proxies which is so far from the truth I do not think you know much about Iran. Am I an Iranian sympathizer? I predicted the Revolution when I was just a kid after living there for only five days. I predicted the result of this war before the idiot Americans even began. And on October 7, 2023 I predicted this would cause the end of Israel. I've predicted a lot of other things about the Middle East decades before they happened because I know the region, just as you know NC, one would think. I also predicted back in 1979, even though I wasn't keen about Khomeini taking a leadership role in the Revolution (I wasn't surprised as the CIA usually kills off any moderates who might succeed), that Iran would find a form of government that was culturally appropriate (which the Shah's regime certainly was not) and that in the end it would succeed in its fight for sovereignty and in its support of those neighbors who were being slaughtered by the US and Israel. The US has been on the wrong side of this fight since 1947 so none of this surprises me. FYI, in 1973 the US was paying $30 a barrel of oil. In 2026 it started the year paying close to the same amount despite the outrageous inflation we have experienced since 1973. We should be paying at least $200 a barrel but I know we won't. Not now. I suggest you do some reading and hope some day you can go to Iran to see what a remarkable country it is. I am sure the Iranian government will grow and change--it has already changed quite a lot in response to discontent within its citizenry. But that's neither my nor your business. I want ALL the countries in the region to create the governments their citizens want without any foreign intervention, and that includes Palestine. Our power no longer exists, in any case, and if OUR regime is not to change before the next election we need to keep our mitts to ourselves. I, for one, would like to see our President given a private suite of rooms (one bedroom with attached bath) in a mental hospital. He clearly needs to be institutionalized. Soon. But no American has a right to determine Iran's government for them. That's ridiculous.
"But you mention Tudeh and MEK" - no, Wiki did.
"...October 7, 2023 I predicted this would cause the end of Israel..." They're still here. What else are you wrong about?
"The US has been on the wrong side of this fight since 1947 so none of this surprises me." So, America should have bent their knee, 47 years ago?
"I suggest you do some reading and hope some day you can go to Iran to see what a remarkable country it is" I'm sure it's nice. But should I bring my wife? Probably not.
Free markets will determine the price of oil.
"...it has already changed quite a lot in response to discontent within its citizenry." 5 nights ago, your aunts, sisters, daughters and grandmothers - played human shield last Tuesday eve around your energy plants- what has changed?
"I want ALL the countries in the region to create the governments their citizens want without any foreign intervention, and that includes Palestine."
Was Hezbollah involved with regime elimination in Palestine? or the death of Israel - hell you predicted the death of Israel, right?
"Our power gone" guess Iran won't try to control the Strait then, right?
"But no American has a right..." Well, tell your asshole negotiators not to threaten the US with 11 nukes. That's ridiculous? right? How many proxies does Iran fund?
"That's ridiculous...." Iran threatened us - the proxies have been terrorists for decades.... Not your choice, or mine....but after being threatened, we didn't have a choice - we took your asshole negotiators for their word. Blame them... we've been open to negotiating a peace -- now we're getting dicked around by sleeze bags that don't give a shit, how of their many women, die as human shields.
I support normal people that cherish life.... not the assholes that put their women and children out as human shields.... btw What is all this 72 virgin shit in the after life? Are women 2nd class citizens in Iran? Seems they are.
Sorry - you won't have nuclear capability. But the buttheads are arguing for that... Controlling the Strait? - no way after being buttheads and threatening the U.S. - we've no indication, Iran wouldn't follow through with their threat.
FYI. I'm not Iranian. I'm American. I suggest you work on your reading (and thinking) skills. Women in the West are definitely second-class citizens. This administration has been very clear in their attacks on American girls and women. Why do you think Trump has surrounded himself with blond females? If you care about women, tell your foolish President to stop killing them. It'd be nice if he would stop buggering and raping them as well. The US is not going to be controlling the straits. And the American military is not going back to the Gulf states. It doesn't matter what names you call Iranians. The world has changed. Get used to it. The US does not call the shots. Frankly, we don't deserve to. We're so stupid "we", as a country, elected a low-IQ, poorly educated nincompoop who knows very little about the world as president. It beggars the imagination. Well, actually apparently he did not actually win the last election. Surprised?
for energy use, medical use and for deterrents, which they obviously need with the USA and Israel; threatening them all the time. if they had a bomb or were close to a bomb, we would be leaving them alone. when was the last time we interfered with North Korea? oh right, they have a nuclear deterrent
NK - the 1950's. a long time ago, we salvaged South Korea... they're welcome.
So, you do want nuclear capability. I suggest Iran stops their funded terrorist proxies to... stop terrorizing... Perfect example, day one of this war - they shot missiles to all their neighbors.... wtf should we think or react to?
As an Iranian sympathizer, are you proud to know that NK isn't a threat? They have some sort of sanity. Are you proud to know, that after threatening the U.S with 11 nukes on day one of the negotiations - you're not to be trusted and we'll take your asses out - after threatening us.... we know the turd brain Iran regime would follow through on their threats.... NK doesn't threaten us.
And.... you're proud they use women and children as human shields -- it was all over the news last Tuesday.... why don't you move to Iran - you could dress in black, wear a scarf, carry a flag and be a human shield - and hope Iran doesn't threaten the US and their own neighbors?
they shot at American bases in those countries which was quite clever. we have surrounded Iran with our bases and then failed to protect our allies because we were too busy protecting our "chosen" country. too bad. the gulf states need a better ally; they should ally with Iran
hahaha, yea sure, blame it on bad orange man - and support the ho bag regime. Great.
no, israel just steals people's land, shoots children in the head for fun and commits genocide. when they say "never again" they only mean when it applies to them. they are happy to do it to everyone else
what planet do you call home?
Israel might be one of the smallest geographic countries on planet earth... what land stealing? Oh, Palestine? Blame the decision makers of the 1940's for that. I'm glad they had a chunk of land to call home - how many Jews were terminated in WW2?
Which children 'were shot in the head for fun' by Israeli's ? You're a crazed liar. How many Israeli children were "shot in the head" 10/7/23? Couple thousand or so?
So, you're 180 degrees wrong on your false claims. Nice try.
it might be small but it wants to be big and is taking everything in it's path. sure I can blame the decision makers in the 40's but they're all dead and they aren't the people committing the atrocities right now. that would be living zionists. which children? you want me to name a child? what about the humanitarian groups who try to bring in aid to the Palestinians only to be blown up and shot at? what about the journalists they murder because they want their crimes hidden?
sure, 10/7 was horrible but you can't keep people down like that for decades, steal their homes, treat them like shiot and not expect some blowback at some point.
tell me how Israel didn't see it coming. no one can get near their wall. they let this happen to give them the moral justification to complete their murderous rampage. but their behavior was too disgusting for the world to give them a pass.
I don't what their spies have on Trump that he gives in to every repulsive demand they make.
So, Iran kills 30K of their own citizens, has a dozen or two of armed proxies to do their killing(s) - like 10/7/23, threaten the U.S. with nukes, etc.... and America are the bad guys. Got it. Move to Iran. You're delirious with TDS.
Trolling is so 2020.
Iran does not threaten the US with nukes. Iran doesn't have nukes. I voted for Trump so I hardly have TDS. I had high hopes but those hopes have been dashed. Israel must have something really terrible on him to get him to go along with this fool's errand.
and stop repeating the bullshit 30K dead protestors. repetition doesn't make it true
“If he banned, why have enriched uranium?”
Deterrence
& the ability to wipe out enemies.
Yes, like North Korea. Neither North Korea or Iran are suicidal. But if the Zionists should be so stupid to use nuclear weapons, three simple gun-type nuclear weapons from Iran would turn Tel Aviv into a radioactive fire storm (Ted Postal). The geniuses who killed Khamenei sr. removed the prohibition on Iranian nuclear weapons. Now they may well produce simple gun-type weapons (the kind used on Hiroshima, not even requiring testing). Deterrence…
Horseshit Daniel. Last Tuesday WOMEN holding flags, were put around the energy plants - as a HUMAN FUCKING SHIED you arseling.
Talk destruction of Israel. Move to Iran arseling.
On the contrary, Iranians congregating around potential bombing targets were clearly doing so voluntarily, a measure of popular support for their country, willingness to sacrifice for their country. Israel is committing suicide. Trump is committing political suicide. Move to Iran? I’d like to visit that 7000 year old culture some day, but in the meantime I am an American citizen who believes in the constitution. Unfortunately our current government is violating the constitution and committing war crimes in a war of aggression (per Nuremberg).
yes, someone has to defend the people who are being relentlessly attacked by Israel. if those proxies can put down Israel's increasingly criminal and genocidal behavior, good on them!
it's just like Iran. Israel wants them disarmed completely but Iranians know that the minute they disarm, Israel will exterminate them. well Israel won't do any of the work itself. it will deceive it's Shabbos Goy, the USA, into doing all the fighting, dying, bleeding and most of all- paying for their aggression.
What is it about the word STOP, that you don't understand? Crawl back under rock.
you can stop anytime. when I checked, I didn't see where you had taken over the ownership of substack and have no control over who comments. if you continue to write ignorant racist war mongering comments, I'll continue to counter them. you want me to stop? then you stop writing dribble
pt 11
In any event, the problems of bomb/missile mating and sufficient miniaturization of the former are not trivial. North Korea’s first nuclear devices were too large for its missiles. So it took them years of additional work to miniaturize and compact their warheads to usable scale.
In this context, even Iran’s best current missiles are not fit for purpose. Thus, Iran’s Shahab-3 and Sejjil missiles have significant payload limitations that make them poorly suited for delivering a nuclear weapon. The Shahab-3, Iran’s longest-range operational ballistic missile, has a payload capacity of only about 700–1,000 kg, while the more advanced solid-fueled Sejjil offers roughly 700–1,200 kg.
By contrast, a first-generation nuclear warhead — including the heavy physics package, tamper, explosives, arming and fuzing systems, and re-entry vehicle protection — would likely weigh upwards of 1,500 kg. This means Iran would need to significantly miniaturize any nuclear device before it could be realistically mated to these missiles, which is a complex engineering challenge that has so far eluded them, as well.
In addition, the re-entry vehicle must protect delicate electronics and explosives from extreme thermal and mechanical stresses. Integrating the physics package into such a vehicle while preserving the precise timing required for an implosion is a separate engineering discipline that Iran has never demonstrated, either.
Perhaps the greatest single barrier, however, is testing and confidence. No nuclear weapon state has ever fielded an operational arsenal without some form of full-yield or near-full-yield testing.
That’s because the empirical data from actual detonations are irreplaceable. Computer models and subcritical experiments can only approximate reality. Accordingly, here is the applicable historical record:
United States: 1,054 nuclear tests (1945–1992)
Soviet Union/Russia: 715 nuclear tests (1949–1990)
France: 210 nuclear tests (1960–1996)
United Kingdom: 45 nuclear tests (1952–1991)
China: 45 nuclear tests (1964–1996)
India: 6 announced tests (1974 and 1998)
Pakistan: 6 announced tests (1998)
North Korea: 6 announced tests (2006–2017)
South Africa: 0 tests (it built six gun-type devices in the 1980s but dismantled the program without ever detonating one).
Iran, by contrast, has perforce conducted zero nuclear tests because it has never even weaponized a bomb!
The alternative of proxy testing—using conventional explosives to mimic implosion dynamics—can provide useful data, but it cannot replicate the extreme pressures and neutron fluxes of an actual nuclear detonation.
Needless to say, therefore, the absence of any detected full-scale test or credible proxy program since 2003 remains a central pillar of the U.S. intelligence community’s long-standing judgment that Iran has conducted no weaponization activities.
Tulsi Gabbard’s aforementioned March 25–26, 2025, testimony to the House and Senate intelligence committees reaffirmed this crucial consensus in explicit terms. As Director of National Intelligence, she stated that
“the IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”
She noted the unprecedented size of Iran’s enriched-uranium stockpile but drew a clear line between material production and weaponization. Gabbard’s remarks aligned with the unclassified 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, which highlighted Iran’s enrichment progress while underscoring the absence of resumed weapons-design activities.
In short, the 409 kilograms of 60 percent material that has so alarmed the warmongers because it could be upgraded to weapons-grade in weeks was the Ultimate False Flag.
There was never, ever any prospect of an “imminent” nuclear attack on US territory. Full Stop.
The truth is, when the Donald recklessly launched an all-out war on Iran it had no weaponized nuclear device; it had no long-range missile with a heavy payload (over 1,000 Kg) that could get even one-fifth of the way to Washington DC; and had no capability to marry a bomb, which it didn’t have, to a 5,000 kilometer range ICBM, which it didn’t have, either.
The implications of this discussion are uncomfortable in the extreme. They mean that Bibi, the Donald and his war cabinet of neocons, know-nothings and gym rats are operating on the basis of a blatant False Flag that makes all others that have gone before pale in significance.
At the end of the day, the conflation of enrichment processes with bomb-making capacitydefies even the working knowledge of the Washing War Machine itself.
Given the military mayhem it has already engendered and the far worse impending catastrophes of the ground force invasion just around the corner, it can therefore be well and truly said: Donald Trump is fixing to blow-up the global economy based on a Big Lie that anyone actually capable of making a nuclear bomb would recognize as utterly bogus, and instantly so.
The truth of the matter is this: We doubt whether the Donald—who does no homework and reads no briefs on even the daily trivia of governance to say nothing about subjects as complex and information deep as the Iranian nuke matter—has any clue that he has launched a devastating war for no good reason of Homeland Security whatsoever.
But there are a lot of people in Washington—-and most especially denizens of the War Machine—who surely do. But the man has become so irrationally obsessed with his own ego-driven need to prevail at any cost that he is single-handedly ignoring all the contrary knowledge on the banks of the Potomac and is thereby stumbling into the worst kind of reckless belligerence ever contemplated by a US president.
In the next 24 hours, yet another Trumpian lapse into TACO man may save the day. But enough is enough. It’s time to call in the men in white coats and trigger the 25th Amendment, which was enacted to cope with the very circumstance at hand.
In this context, we are reminded of the fable about the mice who concluded that if they could just put a bell around the cat’s neck, they would all be henceforth safe. Alas, no mouse volunteered for the task, but in this case the gods of history are calling out the order quite clearly: JD Vance—you’ve got the Conn.
STOP
pt 10
These propellant lenses are manufactured from two different types of conventional military grade explosives with deliberately different detonation velocities. The faster explosive is typically HMX and TNT-based, while the slower explosive is usually Baratol. These two explosives are cast and machined into complex lens-shaped components. The precise difference in their detonation speeds allows the lenses to reshape multiple detonation waves into a single, perfectly symmetrical spherical shock wave that compresses the uranium pit uniformly.
Again, precision design and manufacturing are of the essence. Accordingly, the high-explosive lenses are carefully bonded and fastened to the inside surface of the outer shell. They are not loose but form a precise, three-dimensional mosaic that completely fills the space between the rigid outer case and the tamper layer.
The entire purpose of these precision-engineered components and the manner in which they are configured within the device is to facilitate incredible levels of simultaneity. That is, at the instant of detonation, these explosives must ignite simultaneously to within nanoseconds, generating a perfectly spherical shock wave that compresses the pit of weapons grade uranium inward. Indeed, the necessary implosion needs to be so powerful that the uranium is squeezed to densities two to three times that of lead.
In turn, squeezing the pit to the requisite densities requires pressures reaching tens of millions of atmospheres. For purposes of comprehension these extreme pressures might be compared to the pressures in a standard automobile tire, which are generally at 2 to 3 atmospheres, not millions.
At the same time, the material is heated to millions of degrees in a fleeting instant. Yet any asymmetry in either the pressures or heating, even on the scale of a human hair, can distort the shock wave, thereby causing the “pit” to squirt out unevenly, and the device to “fizzle,” producing at best a low-yield dud or nothing at all.
The entire process must be timed with sub-microsecond precision, while the device must also remain safe and stable during transport, storage, and launch.
Moreover, even if Iran possessed the necessary high-explosive components and pit metallurgy today, it would still face yet another weaponization hurdle: To wit, the neutron-initiator problem.
The latter sits inside the hollow center of the spherical fissile pit. It is completely surrounded by the weapons-grade uranium. A reliable neutron initiator must flood the compressed pit with neutrons at the precise moment of maximum compression, which would be coming at the pit from the explosive detonators on the outer rim of the bomb.
Producing and integrating these components at industrial scale while maintaining safety and reliability is a non-trivial enterprise, obviously. In this context, US intelligence believes that Iran has conducted some modeling and small-scale experiments, but scaling to a functional warhead requires years of iterative design, subcritical hydrodynamic testing, and computer simulation validated against real data.
Miniaturization and survivability add another layer of difficulty. A crude device weighing hundreds of kilograms might be transportable by truck or ship. But a deliverable weapon that can be mated to a ballistic missile, survive re-entry heating and vibration, and detonate reliably at the intended altitude—usually 1,500 to 2,500 feet for anti-city applications—requires dramatic size and weight reduction and configuration.
And lest there be any confusion here—we are talking about an anti-city weapon designed to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians. After all, that’s what the supposed Iranian nuke threat is all about. In this regard, the only other nuclear attacks on cities were—
the Little Boy bomb detonated at Hiroshima at 1,900 feet.
the Fat Man bomb detonated at Nagasaki at 1,650 feet.
STOP
pt 9
And yet and yet. The “obliterated” material was neither illegal, even remotely anything like a real nuke and likely not obliterated, either. Yet the 9,247 Kg of enriched uranium, and especially the 409 Kg of 60% material has became just the latest iteration of the flat-out Big Lie that Netanyahu has been telling for decades.
Indeed, the Netanyahu’s “imminent bomb” lie never stops reincarnating. In the days before the Trump/Netanyahu Feb. 28 attacks, the US and Iran were in productive discussion—during which the Iranian negotiator had explained to Ambassador Witcoff and Jared Kushner that the 409 Kg of 60% material could be made into approximately 10 nukes based on the math of bomb engineering.
Their point, of course, is that like in 2015 they were willing to give up the entirely of the 409 Kg plus most of the 8,838 Kg of fuel grade and medical grade material in return for a comprehensive deal and the lifting of the harsh economic sanctions. That Iranian offer, in fact, has been verified by both British and IAEA representative in the meetings, as well as the Oman foreign minister who had been the chief intermediary.
Unfortunately, the Donald’s negotiators in the persons of his crooked son-in-law and a thoroughly ignorant NYC real estate developer apparently missed the point entirely. They construed it as a threat to make 10 bombs within a matter of weeks, which is absolute baloney that anyone with a modicum of technical knowledge would recognize.
The fact is, enrichment from 60% to 90% is the easy part—it just requires running the centrifuges for another few weeks. The hard part is the engineering steps need to build a functional nuclear weapon from this 90% material, which requires sophisticated design work, precise machining of the core, reliable detonators, and a delivery system that can survive extreme re-entry heat and other stresses.
Stated differently, the dog that hasn’t barked with respect to the “two weeks to a nuke” lie is something called the “physics package” in the trade, which is the sine qua non to make a workable nuke.
The latter requires a precisely engineered device that can achieve supercriticality in a fraction of a microsecond. That is what actually initiates an uncontrolled chain reaction.
In practical terms, this means the fissile material (90% enriched U-235) must be compressed so rapidly, powerfully and uniformly that the number of neutrons produced by fission exceeds those lost to escape or absorption, causing the chain reaction to multiply exponentially in an uncontrollable burst. The entire nuclear explosion unfolds in roughly one millionth of a second — releasing energy equivalent to thousands of tons of TNT before the device physically blows itself apart.
Historically, there have been two basic designs for the physics package: The simpler gun-type device (used only once, on Hiroshima) and the far more efficient implosion-type design (used on Nagasaki and in virtually all modern weapons). According to US intelligence, Iran has never demonstrated mastery of either approach in a deliverable configuration. And that is something anyone can look up via Grok 4 or any similar AI.
In any event, the implosion design favored by all proliferators to date is excruciatingly demanding. It can be envisioned as having a hollow sphere or “pit” of weapons-grade uranium, roughly the size of a grapefruit, at the center of the device. This “pit” is then surrounded by a tamper/reflector and finally around the outside of the latter lies a precisely synchronized shell of conventional high explosives.
The functions of each of these two outer layers, which wrap around the U-235 “pit” of the bomb, are crucial to actually triggering a nuclear chain reaction explosion. And they also involve no mean feats of physics-based engineering and extreme precision during the manufacturing and assembly process.
In this context, the tamper/reflector is made of heavy metal (usually beryllium or depleted uranium) and consists of a precisely machined spherical shell typically 5–10 cm thick, surrounding the uranium pit like an eggshell. It thus sits directly between the high-explosive lenses grafted to the inside of the bomb’s outer wall and the U-235 pit at the center.
The tamper/reflector therefore essentially encases the fissile core and performs two vital roles. First, when the high explosives on the outside shell detonate (see below), the tamper’s mass and inertia resist the outward expansion of the exploding pit for a few crucial microseconds. This “holds the pit together” long enough for many more generations of fission to occur before the entire device blows itself apart. Without a perfectly functioning tamper, the pit would expand too quickly and the chain reaction would fizzle out prematurely.
Secondly, this layer also operates as a reflector much like a basketball backboard, causing any neutrons escaping from the pit to rebound back into the hoop, so to speak. This happens because the beryllium or depleted uranium in this layer is very effective at reflecting neutrons back into the pit rather than allowing them to escape. By bouncing neutrons back into the fissile material, it greatly increases the efficiency of the explosion, meaning less uranium is needed to achieve a full yield.
Finally, the bomb’s outer shell is comprised of a steel, aluminum or plastic sphere, which houses the “high-explosive lens” that are fused to the inside of this outer case. These so-called explosive lenses are essentially the ignition propellants that initially slam into the pit at incredible speeds, pressures and uniformity of impact. So in order for the bomb to work, these high-explosive lenses must be machined to tolerances measured in fractions of a millimeter.
pt 8
The proof of the bargaining chip pudding could not be more evident in the graph below. During the 10-year run-up to the 2015 nuke deal with the Obama Administration, the Iranians increased their enriched uranium stockpiles to just slightly below the current level, to about 9,000 kilograms.
But in an almost mirror image of the present, fully 96% of that amount was fuel-grade material at <4%, with about 350 kilograms of that material enriched to the 20% purity level for medical grade uses. That is to say, most of the 2015 stockpile was generated as a bargaining chip, and that was exactly its fate.
Upon activation of the JCPOA in 2015, all of the 20% material was destroyed as certified by the IAEA. At the same time, the total stockpile of fuel-grade material was also reduced by 97% to de minimisworking levels, as further certified by the IAEA.
Indeed, Iran ended up retaining only 300 kilograms of its 9,000 kilogram stockpile. As mentioned above, however, the Donald had recklessly canceled the deal in May 2018 on the grounds that it had to be a bad deal by definition because he didn’t negotiate it!
Of course, that foolish move only caused the Iranians to restart the stockpiling process yet again, as is so explicitly depicted by the green line in the graph below. The irony, therefore, is that after the Donald’s feckless June 2025 bombing campaign the Iranians likely had close to 100% of the 9,248 kilograms (including the 409 Kg of 60% material) held before June still in tact.
That’s based on pretty convincing satellite photos showing that all of the Donald’s amateur “art of the deal” head fakery last June about “two weeks to decide” before the actual the bombing runs enabled the Iranians to drive trucks up to the Nantanz and Fordow facilities and remove the stockpiles to safe sites elsewhere.
Stated differently, Obama negotiated the Iran enriched stockpile to down by about 97%, while the Donald bombed roughly the same level of stockpile from 9,248+ kilograms to, well @ 9,248 Kg.
Nice try troll girl. Get a life, or not.
pt 7
In any event, subsequent to the Donald’s foolish cancellation of the JCPOA in May 2018 Iran responded by gradually increasing its enriched stockpile levels as self-evident bargaining leverage for an expected new round of negotiations. Even then, it continued to allow IAEA inspectors access and publicly stated it would return to full compliance if the U.S. rejoined the deal.
Accordingly, the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates after 2018 continued to assess that Iran was not actively pursuing weaponization. The 2019, 2020, and subsequent NIEs all repeated the core finding: To wit, Iran had not restarted the weaponization program halted in 2003.
The intelligence community’s position remained unchanged even as enrichment levels rose. For instance, an unclassified July 2023 report under the Biden Administration again attested that—
Unclassified ODNI Report on Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Capability (July 2023 edition): “Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would be necessary to produce a testable nuclear device…”
Finally, as recently as March 2025 Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified before Congress that Iran still did not have a nuclear weaponization program. She stated the assessment was based on the latest all-source intelligence and that no new evidence had emerged contradicting the long-standing conclusion. Her testimony was direct and unambiguous.
Weeks later, Gabbard’s deputy, Joe Kent, a former CIA officer, essentially confirmed the same point in a public hearing. He noted that while Iran had accumulated more enriched material, theweaponization infrastructure and design work remained dormant.
Needless to say, even the small 420 kilogram (kg) stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (out of total stocks of about 9,200 kg) that the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran had at the time of the subsequent June bombing had been produced for bargaining chip purposes in the context of the negotiations with the Trump Administration then underway.
As a NPT (nonproliferation treaty) signatory and operator of the aforementioned large civilian nuclear reactor at Bushehr, Iran was allowed to have the 7,582 kilograms of civilian reactor grade enriched uranium that the IAEA also certified last spring, as well as the 1,257 kilograms of medical grade uranium (20%).
What was really up for debate was just the 409 kilograms of 60% enriched material in its possession that could be spun to 90% weapons grade in a relatively short time. But for crying out loud, it is goddamn obvious to anyone not looking for an excuse for war that Iran had produced this material as of last June as trading bait for a new nuke and sanctions lifting deal.
That is, in order to get a new nuke deal with Washington to replace the one the Donald himself unilaterally cancelled in 2018, and thereby pave the way for lifting the brutal and demented economic sanctions that Washington has again imposed on Iran.
pt 6
In short, not even a Houdini could have secretly broken-out of the box contained in the JCPOA agreement and then confronted the world with some kind of fait accompli threat to use the bomb. To do so would have required diversion of thousands of tons of domestically produced or imported uranium and the illicit milling and upgrading of such material at secret fuel preparation plants.
It would also have involved the secret construction of new, hidden enrichment operations of such massive scale that they could house more than 10,000 new centrifuges and the building of these massive spinning arrays from components smuggled into the country and transported to remote enrichment operations undetected by the massive complex of spy satellites overhead and covert US and Israeli intelligence agency operatives on the ground in Iran.
Finally, it would have required the activation from scratch of a weaponization program which had been dormant according to the US National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) for more than a decade.
That’s right. Fully dormant for more than a decade. Yet the threat that the Donald supposedly averted by shit-canning the Obama deal was that the Iranian regime—–after cobbling together one or two bombs without testing them or their launch vehicles—would nevertheless have been willing to threaten to use them sight unseen.
In short, the case against the JCPOA was rampant hogwash. It’s only purpose was to kill the deal so that Bibi Netanyahu would again be in a position of wave the bloody shirt of an Iranian nuke for purposes of domestic politics and keeping his Washington servitors on a short leash!
The truth is, there never was a plausible or rational basis for the Donald’s bombastic claim that the Obama nuke deal was fatally flawed. So in cancelling the deal, what Trump really did was embrace the immense tissue of lies beneath the unwarranted demonization of Iran that Bibi Netanyahu and the Empire Firsters on the banks of the Potomac had fabricated over the course of three decades.
pt 6
The disposition of the heavy water reactor at Arak is even more dispositive. For years, the Netanyahu neocons had falsely waved the bloody shirt of “plutonium” because the civilian nuclear reactor being built there was of Canadian “heavy water” design rather than GE or Westinghouse “light water” model; and, accordingly, when finished it would have generated plutonium as a waste product rather than conventional spent nuclear fuel rods.
In truth, the Iranians couldn’t have bombed a beehive with the Arak plutonium because you need a reprocessing plant to convert it into bomb grade material. Needless to say, Iran had no such plant, no plan to build one, and no prospect for getting the requisite technology and equipment on the international market.
But even that bogeyman was dispatched by the nuke deal. The latter required Iran to destroy or export the heavy water reactor core of its existing plant and replace it with a core that cannot produce material which can be reprocessed into weapons grade plutonium. All of these requirements were subject to rigorous international inspection and, in fact, were complied with before Trump cancelled the deal.
As to its already existing enriched uranium stock piles, including some 20% medical-grade material, 97% of this material was to be disposed of, and that requirement was complied with, too. Iran ended up with only 300 kilograms of fuel-grade material out of its 10,000 kilogram stockpile.
As it happened, that was an amount that could have been readily stored in the Donald’s wine cellar at Mar-o-Lago. And, in fact, that’s all Iran had at the time of Trump’s cancellation of the JCPOA, according to the IAEA reports.
The deal’s real clincher, however, had been Iran’s agreement to what amounted to a 20-year cradle-to-grave inspection regime encompassing the entire nuclear fuel chain. International inspectors were allowed to visit Iran’s uranium mines and milling and fuel preparation operations, its enrichment equipment manufacturing and fabrication plants and the storage facilities for its centrifuge rotors and bellows production.
Beyond that, Iran had also agreed to and had complied with a robust program of inspections to prevent smuggling of materials into the country to illicit sites outside of the framework facilities. That encompassed imports of nuclear fuel cycle equipment and materials, including so-called “dual use” items which are essentially civilian imports that could be repurposed to nuclear uses, even peaceful domestic power generation.
Not reading any of your comments. I have a life troll girl - you should consider getting on.... or not. Those fact checkers have your head spinning. Not my problem.
pt 5
Under the JCPOA Iran agreed to dispose pursuant to IEA supervision more than 98 percent of its enriched uranium stockpile of about 9,000 kilograms, even though the overwhelming bulk of it (@8,630 Kg) was fully legal <4% reactor fuel grade material.
Beyond that, it also agreed to dismantle two-thirds of its centrifuges and convert its Fordow facility to research functions only. In return, economic sanctions were to be lifted and thereafter the IAEA was authorized to conduct the most intrusive inspection regime ever applied to any country.
From 2016 through early 2018, moreover, the IAEA issued 12 consecutive reports verifying that Iran had no diversion of nuclear material and no undeclared activities. Enrichment stayed at 3.67 percent — the level needed for civilian power reactors. Stockpiles remained within agreed limits. Iran kept its side of the bargain.
Nevertheless, on May 8, 2018 Trump 45 withdrew the United States from the JCPOA. He reimposed the full suite of sanctions that had been lifted, plus new ones targeting oil sales, banking, and shipping. This so-called “maximum pressure” campaign aimed to force Iran back to the table on harsher terms.
But here’s the thing. Iran had actually adhered to both the letter and spirit of the Obama deal and thereby had put its civilian enrichment program under a system of airtight international safeguards monitored by the IAEA. That is, they made huge concessions on nearly every issue that makes a difference.
This included the number of permitted centrifuges at Natanz, the status of the Fordow and Arak facilities, the disposition of their enriched uranium stockpiles, the intrusiveness and scope of the inspections regime and on braking mechanisms with respect Iran’s so-called “breakout” capacity.
While every signatory of the non-proliferation treaty has the right to civilian enrichment, Iran had agreed to reduce the number of centrifuges by 70% from 20,000 to 6,000 and actually did so after the deal took effect. Moreover, its effective enrichment capacity had been reduced by significantly more than 70% because the remaining Natanz centrifuges consisted exclusively of its most rudimentary, outdated equipment—–slow, low-yielding first-generation IR-1 knockoffs of 1970s European models.
pt 4
In major part, the 2007 NIE was aimed at debunking a 2002 Israeli propaganda offensive suggesting the opposite—that Iran was close to weaponization. But much of that information came from the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian dissident group with a long history of providing fabricated or exaggerated claims to Western governments.
This included a major role in providing the false intelligence about what turned out to be Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMDs. Later investigations, in fact, showed that many of the supposed “Iran has a nuke” documents sourced from the MEK were either planted or heavily edited. So the crucial 2007 NIE effectively debunked the most alarmist of these Israeli claims.
In this time period, President George W. Bush–no wallflower when it came to starting foreign wars—terminated a planned neocon inspired US attack on Iran owing to this same 2007 NIE. As he later admitted in his memoir “Decision Points”, he had been ready to order military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites much like the Donald’s bunker buster campaign of this past June, but the NIE had “pulled the rug out from under” any immediate military option:
“…….The NIE didn’t just undermine diplomacy. It also tied my hands on the military side. There were many reasons I was concerned about undertaking a military strike on Iran, including its uncertain effectiveness and the serious problems it would create for Iraq’s fragile young democracy. But after the NIE, how could I possibly explain using the military to destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence community said had no active nuclear weapons program?”
Thereafter, Iran continued uranium enrichment activities that it had started in 2006 in order to produce fuel grades material (< 4% U-235) for its large nuclear power plant at Bushehr. These were levels far below what is needed for a bomb (90%+ purity) and was done in a manner generally consistent with its obligations as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreement (NPT). During this period (2007 to 2015) Iran’s enrichment activities included a small volume (360 Kgs) of 20 percent medical grade material, but the stockpile remained small and was under IAEA monitoring all the while.
According to subsequent intelligence community findings there was no credible evidence of any resumed weaponization work at Iranian facilities, either overt or covert after 2007. So diplomatic efforts intensified during the Obama Administration, culminating in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
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So, the overwhelming heart of the case essentially begins and ends with the “nuke” that Iran doesn’t have and hasn’t been seeking since a small weaponization research project was abandoned in 2003. That was done on the orders of Ayatollah Khamenei who issued a Fatwa proclaiming that the development, stockpiling or use of nuclear weapons is forbidden by Islamic Law.
And, yes, we do adhere to Ronald Reagan’s principle of “trust but verify”. That is to say, the 17 US intelligence agencies—-who’s remit, budgets, manpower and big oar in the policy waters on the Potomac have had every incentive to find reasons for exaggerating the threat of Iran getting a nuke—have been saying loudly the opposite for the past 19 years.
That is. Nope. No cigar. No way Jose.
This started with the 2007 NIE (National Intelligence Estimate), which is a consensus product of all the agencies from the CIA to NSA (National Security Agency) to Army Intelligence to the Department of State and the CGI (Coast Guard Intelligence). This NIE stated with “high confidence” that Iran had had a small, secret research program on nuclear weaponization but abandoned it in 2003:
“We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program… Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.” — U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” November 2007
Why did the population of Iran protest en masse earlier this year, and why were up to 40,000 of them slaughtered in the streets?
According to Natl Archives, 55,220 perished in the Viet Nam war. Iran's losses are near parity and occurred inside of a week--allegedly two days. That is phenomenal murder. In fact, one might as well liken it to war/invasion...of its own population. So, yes Iran has attacked others, wickedly.
The US tried to tank the rial to create anger towards the government, about which they boasted quite loudly. This, after 46 years of severe sanctions which only resulted in Iran developing a surprisingly strong economy independent of the almighty dollar (which has been melting away since 9/11 at an alarming rate because of American aggression in Ukraine and Gaza). A lot of Iranians have been killed by the American sanctions. (The dollar has also lost value due to a great deal of grift by this and other administrations--reference Catherine Austin Fitts.) The demonstrations about the economy were completely peaceful...until Mossad infiltrated and ordered Iranian subversives to kill people at random on the streets and the Iranian government, after noting who had received computers with StarLink with which to receive instructions from Mossad, took action against those committing treason from within (as well as whatever Mossad they could locate). Mossad et al. burned to death unarmed policemen, beheaded innocent Iranians on the street to witness what was going on, etc. The pathetic Crown Prince wanted more dead. He's an embarrassment to the nation of Iran. What a dweeb. He'll never be welcome there again.
40,000? You have no regard for actual evidence.
Related by someone divulging the situation on ground in Iran. Not verified, but then if IRGC admits to 3,000, what difference does it make?
3,000 caused the US to launch a multidecade GWOT, so...
The circumstances indeed are important to understand. But you consistently demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to parse out actual evidence. Instead relying on obvious crude propaganda and the production of embarrassing word salad.
If/when the USA govt officially pumps out crude propaganda, then those who use it are granted exemption from source credibility criticism. Still want to criticize, that's fine, but any complaint stops first at the door of the govt.
Amazingly irresponsible denial/rationalization/deflection. You are obviously incapable of researching where these Bulldust numbers came from. But it hardly matters —- you and fellow travelers commenting in this Substack are a drop in the ocean. Alastair Crooke on a recent interview by Chris Hedges gets a quarter million views and 1300+ comments. Trump has committed political suicide. The religious extremists and Zionists here hang on to delusional ideation, apologizing for a war of aggression, war crimes, and worldwide economic depression - Trump Delusional/Dead-ender Syndrome
These days I think facts are bothersome minutia, not to waste time on when you can build your own narrative. No one researches but suck up the dull drone of the lying media.
I don't justify Orange Boy's crazy war, but spare us your bullsh-t. Iran has been far from peaceful.
Iran/Persia invaded Ottoman territory multiple times during the 1700s, launching the Persian-Otyoman War in 1743.
Persia fought five wars with Russia between 1651 and 1828, launching at least three of them. These included territory in present Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia.
They also launched multiple wars against Afghani tribes in the 1800s.
Iran invaded Iraqi territory from 1982 onwards.
Iran attacked oil tankers linked to EU and Gulf states repeatedly in the 1980s.
Iran invaded the US embassy in Tehran 8n 1979, taking hostages and, you know ...
Iran provided Hezbollah financial, logistical and military support for their 1983 bombings of US and French barracks in Lebanon.
Iran directed and supplied Hezbollah's 1994 bombing of the AMIA Center in Buenos Aires - 86 dead, 350 injured
And the last 40 years of proxy and terror attacks.
facts schmacts nobody cares about facts.
The most common reason why a country desires nuclear weapons is for deterrent that is to have freedom from attacks by aggressor the claim that Iran was two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon and as soon as I had it, they were going to use it to attack the United States or Israel is simply not believable. This seems to be the false reason to launch a preemptive attack on Iran much like the false claim of weapons of mass destruction was the reason to launch an attack on Iraq.
"Iran has attacked NO country in over three centuries.......Israel has attacked all of its neighbors" - I can't decide if you post is a joke, sarcasm, dishonesty, or just pure ignorance, but no one can be that ignorant of reality.
ACTUALLY, THE MAJOR STICKING POINT is Iran's propensity for being deceitful....i.e. lying, & cheating ---- over & over & over, which is dangerous viewed alongside their past & even current actions and behavior.
I think you made a mistake. Israel is deceitful
Nope, that contest would not even be close
That's correct. No country in history is as openly deceitful as Israel. Shamelessly deceitful
Way out of touch with reality…
You can't possibly be serious OR dealing with anything that looks like reality if you are denying Iran's propensity for deceit and double dealing.
Pure, crystalline projection. You are describing the Zionists (in Israel and the U.S.)
Congratulations, MAGA has committed suicide.
https://youtu.be/XLVjiLepNps?si=6oV8dVG6OSnhQP5_
NO, I deal with the clear reality of actions & behavior. You deal with something not remotely related to either, but definitely out of stuff you read or, more likely, DON'T SEE IN LEGACY MEDIA. I could go & produce a VERY LONG LIST of Iran's deceitful behavior over & over....I've been witnessing it for a long time. But denial & ignorance like yours should simply be brushed off.
You’ve been delusional for a long time.
Zionist hasbara
Go back to Poland beyond the Pale!
The nuclear elephant in the Middle East room is that no politician admits to:
Israel has nuclear weapons.
Would Iran give up its nuclear materials if Israel gave up their weapons?
Israel is tiny (some say the size of New Jersey). Surrounded by Muslim nations (Lebanon is the least at 68 percent Muslim). If Israel is such a murdererous state to its neighbors, why have they not used their nuclear weapons? Because despite what Tucker and company say, Israel is focused on defense. Jordan and Egypt have been at peace with Israel since 1994 since peace treaties were signed. Why doesn't Lebanon just sign a peace treaty instead of being at war with Israel since 1947? Israel doesn't chant death to Iran. Yet Iran chants "death to Israel"? Iran was not as hostile and had somewhat peaceful relations with Israel until this regime took control in 1979.
I understand why Israel keeps those nuclear weapons.
You don't know what you are talking about. Israel has been trying to take Iran out since I first got there in 1967. They have always viewed Iran as a competitor. Hezbollah wouldn't have existed if it weren't for Israel's murderous invasion in 2006. Actually, they collaborated with the tiny Maronnite Christian minority in 1982 to enter the Sabra and Shatilla Palestinian refugee camps where they butchered a huge number of people. Lebanon has not been at war with Israel since 1947. Who told you that? You don't know what you are talking about. The countries surrounding Israel (as well as Palestine itself) are multi-religious. Israel has never been defensive. They have been the aggressors since at least the 1920s. Have you never heard of the King David Hotel? Bombing it is how they got the Brits to leave, finally. Ungrateful little shits. Back in 1956 they were bombing Jews in Syria and Iraq, trying to convince them that Muslims were bombing them to get them to leave and move to Palestine so the Ashkenazi could claim the right to even more stolen land. Israelis have always been the aggressors. You have no idea what the Middle East was like before the Ashkenazi showed up. Listen to Gilad Atzmon's interview. And stop making things up. You sound like a child.
Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon https://share.google/CnA4VVvSZmFI8VJR1
This guy??!? Lol
Yes. That guy. The link you sent is dated March of 2012, FOURTEEN years ago. I have no idea what that post was written in response to. Perhaps you can find that. But I do know that Atzmon started out as a socialist in Israel on the kibbutz and gradually grew and developed his ideas so that now he completely disavows Israel, and thinks it began to change and become the right-wing genocidal entity it is today. Why don't you read something more current? Has your point of view on this or any other subject not changed since 2012? I certainly hope so.
Wow so full of vitriol and hate
Perhaps you are. I love Iran. And now I am very, VERY impressed with what they have created under such difficult circumstances in the time I have been in the West. I am delighted by their political goals. It's about time someone stood up to the U.S. Shame on all the countries who were too cowardly to tell the truth and taken action in defense of Palestinians and the Lebanese as Iran has. (And in defense of the Iranians, as well.) I live in the U.S., by the way, because I decided as a teen that Americans being in Iran was harmful to the culture and if I loved Iran I should stay away. There are things I like about the US, but there's a lot I find quite shameful and backward as well. You may find this offensive as well. But you have to leave your culture before you can see it clearly. So I recommend you travel, if you can afford it and are willing to deal with digital IDs. You don't have to go to Iran. Anywhere not the U.S. just so you can see your own country more clearly. And try to develop empathy for others born and living elsewhere.
You know nothing about me. Nothing.
Since the US is so awful, why are you here? I hope you can relocate to Iran, where you can enjoy the culture completely. Nothing I wrote suggests hatred of the Persian people.
Why is Iran under an internet blackout? To me not letting the people speak reflects negatively on the government. Wouldn't the government want the people to show how terrible the war crimes the US and Israel are committing?
I would love to be in Iran right now. Your posts drip with hatred, Lindsay. And ignorance.
Iran is under an internet blackout because Mossad has used the internet to give orders to the subversive Iranians (fools that they are) inside the country whom they are using to try to bring down the regime. The government is saving lives by limiting internet. Do you understand what is meant by "beheading innocent citizens"? How would you feel if your sibling or parents or kids or best friends were beheaded by foreigners who are sleeper spies in your country? Do you know what it means to be beheaded? And I'm sure Israel is trying to inflict more cybercrimes on Iranians.
Your own government is censoring people on substack. They changed the definition of "domestic terrorists" so that they can do that and worse. They are shadow banning and silencing people here every day.
The American media does not want to show anyone what the US and Israel are doing. In fact, it appears to be refusing to do so. Of course, I don't have a TV and don't follow legacy media. I have better things to do than read or watch interviews that I know are so full of outright lies. Life is short.
Read "Dangerous Liaison" by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn.
@Lindsay - What? Have you read Netanyahu's speeches? For almost forty years, he's been calling for the destruction of Iran, not just war, but complete destruction. Many Israeli citizens want peace. But, Netenyaho is linking Iran to Bible prophecy. He uses the account of the Amalakites in 1 Samuel, where God told King Saul to destroy everything, even children and animals. I've mentioned this several times.
The political system in Israel under Netenyaho is completely crazy. Elections are in October. Netenyaho wants Iran destroyed before the fall. He's furious that there was a two-week ceasefire.
Iran knows this; they will not do any peace without Netenyaho out of the way because he will push the nuke button. You have the nuclear situation ass- backwards. Israel is the problem, and Trump's head is stuck up Netanyahu's ass. Trump is stuck being associated with the crazed Israeli PM. Just now, Vance ended negotiations in Pakistan because Iran wouldn't negotiate. Why should they? They've taken the energy market hostage. America looks like fucking idiots.
Again, Israel, the political apparatus is the problem.
You are correct. Those who argue from your position are blatantly anti Israel and wish destruction upon that little country and the people who want their own self determination, especially after the Holocaust showed them Europe will not provide them with safety.
I am sure Netanyahu is for the destruction of the Iranian regime. In 1979, destroying Israel went from being a radical idea to a core pillar of Iran's national identity.
Tell me then, what does Tehran's doomsday clock signify? You have after all heard if this?
This is religious. Remove the western ideology and western state from the surrounding sea of states that practice Sharia law. We are the great Satan and Israel is little Satan. Iran hates us more than they hate Israel. We are just too far away.
You can't seem to understand that political rhetoric, even hateful speech, is meant for their own population. Don't believe me. How about our political rhetoric that it's Putin's fault? And to tell the truth, the US and British empires are the great Satan to Iran. Review the history over the last 80 years. US meddling in Iran, installing a tyrannical regime after WW2, led to a religious takeover in 1979. Whose fault is that? All you can see is US geopolitical propaganda that Neocons build to get your support for spending Trillions on armaments and useless wars. Before WW2, Iran was a peaceful nation. The British and the US built Israel after WW2. Israel is really a giant military base for Western power in the Middle East. If you want the truth, study the history, not Neocon propaganda.
I used to believe the way you believe. But I now think geopolitics is much more nuanced. I felt I was missing part of the picture. I think lots of what you write has truth-but partial truth. You are missing vast parts of history and the religious influences, and much further back than 80 years.
You are too focused on the USA and Israel which causes blindness to other lesser powerful, but still significant countries. Also how conquest and falls of empires left power vacuums.
I don't know what you are talking about . . .political rhetoric about Putin's fault? I don't even understand what that refers to. Your response to my simple observations is incoherent.
Our country has done unsavory things, but everything is not our fault. I think religion plays a massive role and you are ignoring it's massive role.
We have been at war with these nations since our nation began
President Thomas Jefferson initiated the First Barbary War (1801–1805) to combat North African states (Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis) that were capturing U.S. ships and enslaving crews, demanding tribute for safe passage. Refusing to pay ransom, Jefferson deployed the U.S. Navy and Marines to the Mediterranean, successfully securing safe passage through military force, marking the first major U.S. war outside North America. The conflict involved Muslim nations, and at the time, the Tripoli ambassador cited the Quran and the "laws of their Prophet" as justification for attacking non-Muslim nations and enslaving their people.
God bless Israel and the USA.
You must be a Christian Zionist.
Jordan and Egypt have been forced to sign peace agreements with Israel if they want a single dollar of US support. To say that they "have been at peace" with Israel is a real stretch. Israel--that is to say, MOSSAD--trained the Shah's secret police who disappeared, tortured, and murdered Iranians. You don't think that is not hostile? If so, you have no idea what it is to live in a police state, which Iran was under the Shah/CIA/MI6. You reveal more than you realize.
From all you write I am starting to think you are paid by the iranian government.
Why did Iran bomb Qatar energy infrastructure as retaliation to the US bombing Iran? Why did Iran. Bomb it's neighbors.
Why is the iranian Internet not back on?
Why do Persians outside Iran support Israel and Trump?
You have a strange view. Did mossad torture you?
FYI, with the exception of the military who are heavily indoctrinated with racism before they get there, most Americans I know who have lived in Iran for a decent amount of time (at least 3 years and longer) LOVE Iran. Even individuals in the friggin' CIA love Iran.
Believe what you what, Lindsay, if you are a human. Iran bombed Qatar's energy infrastructure because Qatar and other Gulf States allowed the US to have military bases on their land. They warned before the US bombed Iran that this would happen. The Gulf States aren't really countries. They are protectorates created by the West to make sure Western companies controlled the oil supply of the world. The US was especially interested in this because after WWII they tied the US dollar to the buying and selling of oil, thereby artificially inflating the value of oil. The post-war economy of the US has been a scam. We are not "exceptional" (unless exceptionally cruel, predatory, and unethical). The Iranian internet is not back on because Mossad used it to issue orders to subversive cells within Iran. Go ask Israel why Mossad did this. Israelis are paranoid fucks. They are the only real danger in the Middle East. Israel has to be dismantled or it will kill us all. Their infiltration and murder of Iranians was done with your tax money, if you pay taxes. I am not being paid by Iran. In fact, the US government owes hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran from freezing the Iranian assets the Shah stole and invested in American financial instruments in the late 60's and 70's. I would never take a penny from the Iranians for this reason, and to make matters even worse multiple sanctions were instituted by multiple American presidents. This made Iran truly independent. Since Americans are not independent but lackeys to hidden financial interests that control the US government, you would perhaps not understand this. Ali Alizadeh is a great source on this. I suggest you listen to him. He started Jedaal TV. He also has a substack. Some Iranians "in exile" support Israel and Trump because they are traitors. That's the glib answer. To answer this question requires a long explication of what the US and European powers did to Iran during the 20th century and substack software won't allow this. Let's just say the country was raped. They don't like this word because they are proud people and it emasculates them. But even as a young teen this is the term I used. I warned and warned and warned Iranians BACK THEN in the late 60's and early 70's about the damage that was being done to their psyches and culture. I always thought their culture was their most valuable asset and today you can see how right I was. Westerners are incredibly racist and only now, when it affects your pocket books, are you willing to even talk about it. The racism the Westerners inflicted on Iran was intense and intolerable. And these "Iranians in exile" are proof of how damaging it was. Racism is even more damaging to the racist who holds these views. It blinds you. Deal with it. So many people in West Asia have died or been severely traumatized because of it. Take the UK as a warning. They are in dire straits. Their economy is crumbling. Remove the Bank of England (which is a euphemism for the House of Rothschild, the entity that is essential to the establishment of Israel and all these wars--the US financial big wigs are American representatives and puppets for them, like JP Morgan, Rockefeller, etc.) and there would never have been an Israel. Read some economic history. Read about who was behind the Wall Street crash of 1929. I highly recommend the newest book of that title, "1929", by Sorkin. He is a terrific non-fiction writer. It's hard to put down, quite frankly, and the same entities behind 1929 are behind 2008 and other financial crises the US has experienced, including this one. Read it. It should be required reading in every high school. Instead of crying irrationally why don't you listen to what I have written? Or at least give it a think? Is it so threatening to your sense of the world? Or are you even a human being with a mind that can think? No, I was not tortured by Mossad. They usually kill. Torture is labor intensive. Several of my school mates have been murdered by Mossad (that I know of). Read Ari Ben-Menashe's book "Profits of War".
If you are a bot or an employee of the Israeli propaganda machine, don't bother with your little chirping. It's really tiresome and a waste of my time.
Correction. Tying the buying and selling of oil to the US dollar artificially inflated the value of the dollar--not oil.
Israel has stolen nuclear materials (uranium and krytron switches) from the USA. Iran doesn't have that on their resume. We also cannot ignore the Samson Option that notes Israel will use nuclear weapons.
With Trump's threat to wipe out a civilization we have to assume that it would take nuclear weapons to carry out that threat. If Trump's threat was an idle threat then it was reckless to even assert such a taunt while negotiating with a country claimed to be an imminent threat. How many countries were put on high alert due to such a cavalier attitude by the so called "leader of the free world". We want to have the best kind of leaders to lead us as Americans and instead we keep getting the worst. Trump has lowered the bar to a new low.
Yes. They have supported a move to remove all nuclear weapons from the entire Middle East. In fact, everyone in the Middle East would sign that...except for Israel, of course. Israel won't allow inspections of their nuclear industry, which is why they participated in the assassination of JFK. Iran did send a bomb very near Dimona so Israel would know that if Iran wanted to hit Israel's nuclear installations, they could. But they're too ethical to injure "innocent" (if such a thing is possible, I think not) Israelis.
Iran has offered that repeatedly. Israel must also sign the nuclear non proliferation treaty and open up its nuclear plants to weapons inspections
Excellent point.
John, brilliiant and insightful: here is the truth: it is not irrational to want to obliterate Israel, the most destructive state, fraudulently created with great cost, to the entire regioan and to peaceful Arab coexistance. Zionism does not want peace, ever. it wants mayhem for the greater expansion. Having nukes to protect its people from Israel is not irrational, nor is its use. the so called Iran proxies , hamas, Hezbolah, are a direct creation against Zionism, not the other way around.
The Rogue terrorist state, genocidal state is Zionist Israel, we all know it, but dare not say outloud, due to Holocaust blackmail.."you oppose me becuase you want to burn me in ovens."
this trope needs to end now, before Israel/Zionism destroys us all. WE all know this but are terrifed by Aipac money, rich jews in the US OF A, the highjacking of our foreign policy. the US of A , doing Irael;s biz, is the cause of countless millions dead, in Iraq, Aphganistan, Libya, Sudan.
Where is the courageous leader who will terminate Israel's control of US of A.
Let all those persons who hate Zion be turned backward and brought to shame.
When you reference the word Zion can you be more specific on what that represents? The origin of the name Zion is from Mount Zion where the Jebusite fortress of the Canaanites in the stronghold of Zion. David conquered the stronghold and renamed it the City of David. The terminology of Zion evolved from there to be associated to a city (Jerusalem), a temple (Solomon), a bank (Zions), and to a political ideology (Zionists) to establish a nation for an ethnocentric Jewish state in Palestine. The later is based on false assertions and deceitful methods in which the state of Israel was forged and in how it operates. The idolatrous thinking is to believe that just because a nation calls itself Israel and uses the term Zionism that it's existence is either divine or reflective of a nation of people who existed thousands of years ago. In fact the opposite seems to be the case as we see a genocidal people who use terror and violence to enact punishment and judgment. We have seen these behaviors throughout history and must recognize them for what they are.
By their fruits you should know them.
If Israel completely eliminates Hamas and Hezbollah then there will be no more reason for Israel to attack the Palestinians or the Lebanese. Why can’t they seem to eliminate their enemies who have no tanks no anti-aircraft military defensive equipment; their leaders cannot be named or identified, and their troop strength is unknown. Why can’t Israel with all of its military might take out its own enemies. Is it possible that Israel never wants to eliminate Hezbollah or Hamas so they continue to annihilate the Palestinians and the Arabs around them in a slow moving steady genocide?
One could make a strong argument that the most rational decision that Iran could now make is to move forward in developing a nuclear deterrent, following in the footsteps of North Korea, which was largely obliterated by the US Air Force in 1950-53.
And if that day should come, the regime would think that the day has at long-last has arrived: the death of the Great Satan and the Little Satan: will come to pass...or maybe jsut the death of Israel since they are much closer than the U.S...unless Israel receives intelligence what Iran is up to. But I would foresee that that would be the end of Iran's civilization, either by Israel or the U.S.
But I distinctly remember our president saying just 1-2 weeks ago: that he didn't even care about the uranium anymore. What a mystery the guy is, huh. To suggest a bit of levity, which us Irishmen lies to do when tensions arises: Maybe at that point in time when the president said that he didn't care about Iran's uranium, maybe he was thinking, 'ok, now I can at last end their civilization!'
One hasn’t made the argument that “one could make a strong argument that the most rational decision that Iran could now make is to move forward in developing a nuclear deterrent”
Trump says things with full discernment of the relevant listeners, giving the message he wants them to hear.
AS A RESULT OF READING SEVERAL LEAKE POSTS. I am noting...
DR. ROBERT MALONE is far more intelligent and far more intuitive in interpreting and understanding facts and nuances that aren't so nuanced.
e.g. Iran's slogan...."DEATH TO AMERICA"
With Iran's move closer & closer to Nuclear Weapons.....Slogans do matter.
“Death to America” has been CHANTED at state-organized events, EMBEDDED in official commemorations, and ECHOED by senior figures in the regime since the time of Ruhollah Khomeini. i.e. its been engrained into the culture & the minds of zealots in their population."
That's dangerous for the USA.
https://www.malone.news/p/death-to-america
Enriching to 60% then to 83.7% is a nuclear weapons program.
regime iran's "death to Israel" "death to America" plan has been and still is to be able to use nuclear weapons to destroy both the whole of Israel and major American Cities when they had both sufficient nuclear weapons and "delivery systems"* and a workable plan to sufficiently overcome the defenses* of both Israel and America to the degree necessary to effectively achieve their "death to Israel" "death to America" goal.
*"including smuggling nuclear bombs into American cities and ICBMs and barrages of conventional missiles to use up and overcome Israel's air defenses followed by nuclear tipped missiles.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) be damned. regime iran leadership would protect themselves and yes Iran would be destroyed. regime iran leaders would then continue their world conquest for their "cause". rogue elements, seeing their full plan fading, may not choose to wait until the full plan is ready to go.
As per below - it is naive to not believe - regime iran already assembled numbers of gun - type nuclear weapons, city killers, ready to use no testing needed.
rogue elements within the regime iran nuclear weapons program may well try to destroy some American cities irrespective of regime iran's long term plan.
Enriching to 60% then to 83.7% is a nuclear weapons program. Iran nuclear: IAEA inspectors find uranium particles enriched to 83.7% - 1 March 2023 Bethany Bell & David Gritten BBC News, in Vienna and London from ALTER AI " 🔍 What It Meant 1. Strategic Significance 83.7 % enrichment crosses the psychological threshold: it demonstrates Iran now possesses technical capability for direct weapons‑grade enrichment if instructed - Once a cascade runs at that level, going to 90 % requires adjusting run time, not new technology — a matter of hours or days, not months."
Iran had also done all the other work for bomb construction and intermediate range missile delivery see Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector. has it spelled out here - “Developing A Nuclear Weapon Will Be THE END Of Iran!” - Scott Ritter on The Jimmy Dore Show here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbLrAp0z0mY&t=102s note: at 9:22 into this video Scott Ritter “days! days!”.
ALTERAI - "Hence Ritter’s statement that an operational weapon could be field‑ready in “days! days!” is not exaggeration—it’s the consensus of any serious nuclear engineer who is free to speak without political filters."
This actually was very well known by people who observe the outworking of events concerning Iran's nuclear weapons program and long range missile program. Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out. I expect this was not so publicly addressed in the US because why would the US government and military want to discuss this or anything with the media until they were ready.
In the years leading up to 2025 it had become obvious that the regime Iran had progressed to the point that it had the "at will" capability to produce both volumes weapons grade enriched uranium and the nuclear bomb components it needed to assemble city killing size nuclear bombs and to build vast volumes of missiles- at which point the regime in Iran kicked the International Atomic Energy Agency out of Iran.
The controlled media certainly has worked to obscure The Truth. The Trump haters downplay the threat from Iran to try to put Trump in a bad light now that he is actually doing something. The europe globalists did not support any action or conflict that could impede their access to oil so downplaying the truth of growing nuclear weapons capacity in Iran, that would require action, suited them
It looks to me from the following that by 2025 the IAEA did not believe Iran's explanation for the 83.7% enriched particles -
From the IAEA
(e) Regretting that despite the above resolutions by the Board and numerous opportunities provided by the Director General since 2019, Iran has failed to provide the co-operation required under its Safeguards Agreement, impeding Agency verification activities, sanitizing locations, and repeatedly failing to provide the Agency with technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at several undeclared locations in Iran or information on the current location(s) of nuclear material and/or of contaminated equipment,
Derestricted 12 June 2025
(This document has been derestricted at the meeting of the Board on 12 June 2025)
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imo - With all the evidence in plain view, (for those with eyes to see) It is foolishness not to believe and understand that Iran has already assembled numbers of small, simple, Hiroshima type, enriched uranium gun-type fission weapons, city killers. If not more advanced and powerful nuclear weapons. The question is - too little too late?
PS: To President Donald John Trump objective 5 - seize the enriched uranium - do anything and everything YES ANYTHING necessary to locate it and assembled nuclear bombs and then seize ALL of it. Also seize sufficient Iranian oil to fully pay for this just war, over time, so that income is also available so the people in Iran will not suffer needlessly. Unless objective 5 is met, at some time, expect to see a mushroom cloud over New York City and a mushroom cloud over Washington, DC. Bombs smuggled into Our America, perhaps concealed, hidden within a few tons of cocaine, or brought across our border by a small force of elite Iranian special forces prepared to kill any opposition that law enforcement could be expected to mount, with "clean" transfer vehicles pre-positioned for use as needed to continue their stealth attack. Nuclear bombs then driven into Our Major Cities - BOOM
Iran‘s death threats don’t mean too much now as both Israel in the United States have clearly made public statements that they want to annihilate Iran; bomb it back into the Stone ages like Gaza and they want to see annihilation of Persian civilization. I wouldn’t take anything that Iran says to be more heinous than Israel or the United States.
Religion, that which is worshipped, is the strongest motivating force in species Homo sapiens. It is stronger than the instinct of self preservation, or the mating instinct. It is for this reason that the eschaelogical beliefs of the Twelvers will be the biggest determinant of their actions going forward. The only mitigating factor will be the secularist segment of Iranian society.
I'm confused by your argument against MAD. If I'm reading it right, your counter evidence doesn't argue against MAD but rather against national suicide. But they don't want suicide, they want what amounts to murder + suicide - if the 12th Imam eschatology is correct.
Interestingly, 60% of the population is the number of Christians living in Iran. No one ever talks about that. The oldest Christian sects in the world are in Iran.
Where is that 60% number coming from? All the data I see for percent Christians is Iran is less than 2%
That’s what the Mullahs want us to believe. Wouldn’t you turn to Jesus if you lived in a place like Iran? I’ll try to find where I read that.
See Iranian American journalist Anni Cyrus on Substack and at liveuptofreedom.com
Jeremiah 49:34-39 is a remarkably accurate description of the situation with Iran. It says that there is going to be a mass exodus from Elam, which is the ancient name for a portion of Iran--in particular, the portion where the weapons grade uranium is kept. There is zero chance that Israel exits this conflict with that uranium intact. The Muslims have promised to annihilate Israel. Why should Israel wait to be annihilated? So, Israel will strike that stockpile and there will be a nuclear catastrophe. It is possible that United States/Israel will strike Iran's desalination plants and power plants and that would cause an exodus, but that is less likely.
In my opinion, Iran wants Nuclear weapons to make them “unattackable”
I, who like millions of my kind (America Firsters) put Trump back into office, would rejoice if he were executed for his High Treason and Crimes Against Humanity. Death to Trump and his Jewish Masters.
What did Madame DeFarge say as she sat in front of the guillotine knitting?
It doesn't make sense to me that Iran didn't give up the uranium in 1963 and here we are in 2026 is again expected too? That is absolutely crazy! Why would they?
But Israel has nuclear weapons, I have never understood why others can't. Do you think one is more aggressive than the other by their actions? Who has been attacking who? The ones that have it, like NK, Pakistan, etc never get attacked. I don't hear that being discussed. Scott Ritter says Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons. So what is all the panic about ? I should say "aggression".
Very good use of AI. The statement “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” might very well be true. Thank you John, for your thoughts!
Yes Rosa, good point, we must know geography very well now.