Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood – CNN July 19, 2024
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said that Iran’s breakout time – the amount of time needed to produce enough weapons grade material for a nuclear weapon – “is now probably one or two weeks” as Tehran has continued to develop its nuclear program.
The assessment marks the shortest breakout time that US officials have ever referenced and comes as Iran has taken steps in recent months to boost its production of fissile material.
“Where we are now is not in a good place,” the top US diplomat said at the Aspen Security Forum Friday.
“Iran, because the nuclear agreement was thrown out, instead of being at least a year away from having the breakout capacity of producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon, is now probably one or two weeks away from doing that,” he said.
“They haven’t produced a weapon itself, but that’s something of course that we track very, very carefully,” Blinken added.
Blinken said the policy of the US is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and that the administration would prefer to stop that from happening through diplomacy.
Over a year ago a top US Defense Department official said that Iran could now produce “one bomb’s worth of fissile material” in “about 12 days.”
The Biden administration engaged in more than a year of indirect negotiations with Iran aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, from which the US withdrew in 2018 under the Trump administration.
Those efforts collapsed in late 2022, as the US accused Iran of making “unreasonable” demands related to a probe by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN nuclear watchdog, into unexplained traces of uranium found at undisclosed Iranian sites. In the months that followed, the administration maintained that the Iran nuclear deal was “not on the agenda.”
Iran’s new president has suggested they are open to engagement with the West. However, a senior State Department official told CNN that they no longer believe that there can be a return to the nuclear deal because Iran has engaged in too many escalatory acts in the years since talks broke down.
“We’re in a very different world, a lot of time has elapsed, Iran has done a lot of things that make a return to JCPOA non-viable,” the official said.
The State Department also said that there is no anticipation that the recent election in Iran will change the country’s behavior.
“We have no expectations that this election will lead to a fundamental change in Iran’s direction or its policies,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said earlier this month. “At the end of the day, it’s not the president that has the ultimate say over the future of Iran’s policy; it is the supreme leader, and of course we have seen the direction that he has chosen to take Iran in. Obviously, if the new president had the authority to make steps to curtail Iran’s nuclear program, to stop funding terrorism, to stop destabilizing activities in the region, those would be steps that we would welcome. But needless to say, we don’t have any expectations that that’s what’s likely to ensue.”
More than likely Iran has nuclear weapons with the help of Russia’s lap dog North Korea, well Putin did warn the West.
Blinken was made in the same Satanic Nazi test tube as Boris Mass Murderer Johnson, he can’t stop lying.
The administration would prefer to stop that from happening through diplomacy.”
Funny how the CIAda accepted Iran’s need for nuclear power, and actually assisted it’s nuclear development program.
The truth, Iran has all the components to put 2/3 nuclear weapons together, and they probably achieved this a month ago.
The question is, how many of these components have been assembled, and how long to complete the weapons? Maybe they are ready.
If the Middle East expands into a wider war where the US is dragged in, then it’s of US making.
My own view is that Bibi and his Nazi chums have no choice but to open up on all fronts, because at the end of the day, Nazi Amerika doesn’t want to lose its Middle East aircraft carrier.
It is always easier to escalate, and never more so for Netanyahu. Even if the US gets involved, Israel is finished. Many have left, the country more devided than before the 7th, it’s economy is in tatters, and Israel is globally viewed as evil personified, and Arab elites are just as complicit, and just as evil as they sit on their fat arses. Although Iran is in a slightly different category, but there’s huge anger within the Arab world, but this is a future problem.
Maybe Biden needs to go out with a spectacular. A strike on Iran?
Iran has been two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon since the 1990’s.
Enough already!
The string attached to the leaders of Iran are the same as are attached to other world leaders. Twice, the CIA have replaced regimes in Iran in modern times, but since the Ayatollah, they have a “bogeyman” regime they can use for their dialectic.
How might one assess the technical know-how of the Iranians of 2024 with the Manhattan Project of the 1940s. Viz, eighty years previously? Also bearing in mind India and Pakistan “have nukes”, South Africa once had them(?), and Israel has cunningly held its empty hand behind its back protesting loudly that it doesn’t have them while conjuring up “whistle blowers”.
The supposed transference of “nuclear secrets” during the phony Cold War was a means of supporting the facade. But, if these secrets were “real”, how come Iran in eighty years has not threatened. Indeed it is perennially ” a few weeks away from” making good.
A “few weeks from making good” plays into the minds of retards like the Antiblahblah guy here who called me a “Jewish shill” recently. It is the millenialist card of something always about to happen like covid, the second coming, or QAnon. It says something about the human psyche that welcomes the emotional rollercoaster. And of course, with far worse retards than Antiblahblah at large, the rollout of this mass psychosis seems to be as successful as ever.
Appeals to “nukes” are appeals to the new gods. Recently Carl Jones mulled over the existence of nukes before disregarding it. He is an intelligent man, but nevertheless ignored my reply to him on nukes. If you close your eyes, you can’t see can you? There is no conversation to be had and the continuing constructions of temples for the imaginary gods can continue.
Another one of these new gods is the “virus”, as is the “racist”. All these mythical creatures can be invoked for societal control. And yet “intelligent” broadsheet reading people worship them and build their whole worldview on their actual existence.
“Iran’s nuclear weapon breakout time is probably down to 1-2 weeks!!! OMG!!! 😬”
– Gunness Book Of Records entry for “The most repetitive refrain… in WORLD HISTORY!”
Direct this rhetoric to the imposters and occupiers of Palestine. The talmud cult has nuclear weapons stolen from the USA and never declared as having such but only threatening surrounding countries with it.
Iran, has the right to produce nuclear weapons as other countries. Iran certainly has to defend itself against the talmud evil cult.
Iran’s nuclear “breakout time” has been only a matter of weeks away for as long as I can remember.
They already have more nucs than Israel. But remember the zionists and clerics in Iran both work with Western intel, before the USempire, it was the British empire ruling the region.
what the fuck have the jews to argue against the iranians ?
its the same stoking probing USjews inciting hatred against
peaceful russians . STOP YOUR WARMONGERING AND
ALL NATIONS WILL BE AT REST ! but you want abolish
nations to rule, control + rob resources .JEW PESTILENCE !
my advice to fleeing jews : FLEE TO ARGENTINA !
there the nukewar will not reach . but how you masses
of jews maintain to live there is another question .
maybe Rothschilds suports you there with breadlines .