Iran goes nuclear?

If Iran continues to be run by a group of medieval-minded ayatollahs with nuclear weapon ambitions, VERY BAD THINGS will eventually happen to the people of Israel or to the people of Iran.

And if the U.S. continues to be run by a Biden administration that “is pressing European allies to back off plans to rebuke Iran for advances in its nuclear program,” then the likelihood of an Israeli-Iranian confrontation over Tehran’s nuclear capabilities will soon move closer to a certainty.

“Iran is now enriching uranium to up to 60% purity and has enough material enriched to that level, if enriched further, for two nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s theoretical definition.

"That means Iran's so-called ‘breakout time’ - the time it would need to produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear bomb - is close to zero, likely a matter of weeks or days...

"Iran denies ever having a nuclear weapons programme, though Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that, if it wanted to, world leaders ‘wouldn't be able to stop us.’

"Estimates of how long Iran would need for weaponisation generally vary between months and about a year.

"In March 2023 the top U.S. military officer at the time, General Mark Milley, testified to Congress that weaponisation would take Iran several months….”