Mike Whitney – The Unz Review June 9, 2025
“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” President Donald Trump, NBC News Interview, March 30, 2025
President Donald Trump is threatening to launch air strikes on Iran for activities that are approved under the terms of Iran’s treaty obligations. This is not a matter on which there should be any debate. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) explicitly grants all parties, including Iran, the “inalienable right” to develop, research, produce, and use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. This “inalienable right” includes the enriching of uranium.
Trump either doesn’t understand what a “treaty” is or thinks its terms should not apply to Iran. For the sake of clarity, a treaty is a formal, legally binding agreement between sovereign states that is governed by international law. It establishes mutual obligations, rights, or rules on matters such as trade, security, nuclear non-proliferation, or environmental protection. A treaty is not optional and cannot be repealed by executive fiat. States that ratify treaties are legally obligated to comply with their terms in good faith. Political leaders, as representatives of the state, are expected to uphold these obligations.
This is all very straightforward which is why we find so it hard to understand why Trump is threatening a country that is clearly “in compliance” with its obligations under the NPT. Here’s what Trump said on Friday on Air Force One:
“They won’t be enriching. If they enrich, then we’re going to have to do it the other way… (air strikes) And I don’t really want to do it the other way but we’re going to have no choice. There’s not going to be enrichment.”
Trump has no legal authority to determine whether Iran can enrich uranium or not. It’s simply not his decision to make. Even Grok—with its obvious pro-Israel bias—understands this. Check it out:
Donald Trump, whether as a private citizen or as U.S. president, has no legal authority under international law to demand that Iran stop enriching uranium. Iran, as a sovereign state and signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), has the right under Article IV to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, including uranium enrichment, provided it complies with its safeguards obligations under Article III and its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement (CSA) with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). No individual state, including the United States, has the unilateral legal authority under international law to prohibit Iran from exercising this right. Any demand from Trump would be a political or diplomatic action, not a legally binding directive, unless backed by a UN Security Council resolution, which would require agreement from other permanent members (e.g., Russia, China). Grok
Trita Parsi explains how Trump has adopted John Bolton’s Iran policy
Also, there is no provision in international law or under the UN Charter that allows one country to attack another country based on its own subjective perception of what ‘may or may not’ constitute a threat. That’s insanity, and it flies in the face of the UN’s efforts to ensure peace and security through collective action and multilateralism. Besides, there is no credible legal case against Iran, because Iran is not violating the rules. What the MSM stubbornly refuses to tell the public is that Iran has no nuclear weapons and no nuclear weapons program. And—according to the IAEA—Iran has been “in compliance” since 2003 and has never diverted nuclear material to a weapons program. In other words, there’s no legal case against Iran at all. Zilch.
So, what is the point of Trump’s fulminations? Why is he threatening a peaceful country that is clearly “playing by the rules”?
Did we mention that the Trump campaign was given over $100 million by wealthy Zionist donors whose driving ambition is to topple the government in Tehran and absorb territorial Iran into Greater Israel?
Could that be a factor? Could that explain why Trump convened 5 separate meetings with Iranian negotiators without once mentioning the issue of “nuclear enrichment”, but then—Surprise, Surprise—did a swift 180 after which he made “zero enrichment” the foundational demand for which he has declared unflinching support?
How do you explain that sudden about-face? Is Trump pursuing an Israeli agenda or putting “America First”?
And why would Trump stake-out such a flimsy, untenable position when he knows that enrichment is the one provision in the NPT on which Iran will never budge?
The obvious answer is that Trump doesn’t want an agreement; he does not want to resolve the issue peacefully. That’s why he focused on the one issue on which there is no flexibility, figuring (quite rightly) that enrichment can be used as a pretext for war. And that’s the goal, war with Iran.
(Readers who have been following developments with Iran closely may recall that Trump’s original demand was that “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”. (Iran has agreed to that demand.) But now, he has sneakily changed the wording to “no enrichment” as if the two things are the same. Naturally, the pro-Israel media has not drawn attention to the president’s sleight-of-hand fearing that it would reveal the deceptive game he is playing. But, the fact remains, Trump used the negotiations to look like he genuinely wanted peace, and then quickly moved the goalposts as the “talks” progressed. Bottom line: A peaceful settlement was never Trump’s objective.
This is from an article at The Times of Israel (June 8, 2025:
Iran conducted and covered up “a number” of implosion tests that are key to developing a nuclear weapon in 2003, an analysis of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s May 31 report on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program reveals.
According to the Washington, DC-based Institute for Science and International Security think tank, which analyzed and published key points from the IAEA report, the activities carried out by Iran were in preparation for a “cold test” in the development of a nuclear bomb, which involves the creation of “a fully assembled nuclear device with a surrogate core of natural or depleted uranium rather than weapons-grade uranium. Times of Israel
This is how desperate the Trump team (and their Israeli allies) are to cast suspicion on Iran’s perfectly legal activities. They’ve actually dug up the details of research that was conducted in 2003. (a period during which Iran has admitted to “aspects of a nuclear weapons program.”) Notice that the IAEA report does not suggest that anything illegal is going on today, or that there is any indication that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program, or even that they are diverting nuclear material to some other location. No. What they’re referring to happened more than two decades ago. It’s a joke.
And the same rule applies to the uranium that has been enriched to 60% which the Iranians have admitted to many times in the past. They’re not hiding anything; they’re looking for sanction’s relief, that’s all. Turns out, they don’t like economic strangulation. Are you surprised?
Iran started enriching uranium at higher levels when Trump broke an earlier treaty (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) that was hammered out by Obama, and which was the most exhaustive and stringent nuclear agreement in history. When Trump walked out in 2018, Iran started enriching at 60% thinking they could use it as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with the administration.
Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked out that way, mainly because Israel wants the “maximum pressure” policy to continue until they are ready to launch aerial attacks on targets in Iran. So, the sanctions have remained in place.
By the way, under the terms of the NPT, Iran is allowed to enrich uranium to 60% as the treaty does not explicitly set a maximum enrichment level for non-nuclear-weapon states. This is a fact, but it is a fact that is omitted in 100% of the MSM coverage of the issue. Why would that be?
Iran Needs Nuclear Energy
Many people believe that a country with vast oil resources like Iran has no need for nuclear energy, but that’s simply not true. Much of Iran’s electricity generation takes place at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Iran’s primary nuclear power facility, that uses low-enriched uranium to generate significant electrical power and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
Iran also uses nuclear technology to produce radioisotopes for medical diagnostics and treatment,… widely used in cancer diagnosis and imaging. Iran claims its nuclear program supports healthcare by providing isotopes for over 1 million patients annually.
Iran also uses nuclear energy in industrial applications, agriculture, water resource management, scientific research, cancer treatment, technology and radioisotope production. The fact is, no country would join the NPT if they were denied the “peaceful use” of nuclear power. Why would they?
Finally….
Americans should realize that nothing one reads about Iran in the western media can be trusted; it is all poisoned with the same, vile anti-Iran hatred and bias. Since the 1979 Revolution to today, US policy towards Iran has been an unbroken chain of relentless hectoring, belligerence and demonization. Washington has never treated Iran with the respect it deserves nor will it in the future. That’s because—on a fundamental level—the entire US political class despises Iran for asserting sovereign control over their-own vast resources and for failing to kowtow to their mucky-muck overlords in Washington. That’s the real issue; Iran has refused to cave in to Uncle Sam’s diktats which is why it must be punished with economic strangulation, “maximum pressure” and, inevitably, war. That is how America treats the peasants in the provinces, with an iron fist.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi summed up Iran’s approach at a recent ceremony for the late Ayatollah Khomeini. He said:
“The main foundation of Iran’s foreign policy is based on the principle of renouncing foreign domination. Trump’s ban on enrichment is itself domination, and this is unacceptable to the Iranian people.”
To its credit, Iran has never ‘given an inch’ to Washington’s endless badgering and saber-rattling. They have stuck by their principles and defended their right as a free country to choose their own development model, their own political system and their own collective future without bullying or coercion.
Iran should be applauded for shrugging off Washington’s threats and intimidation, and for its unflinching commitment to the principle of sovereign independence. They have preserved their dignity through 45 years of nonstop hostility and antagonism.
Bravo, Iran.
The last Iranian proposal was that Iran would commit to low grade enrichment, if the US removed Joolandia’s nuclear weapons and infrastructure, by force, if need be.
Of course, this is Iran taking the piss out of Donald Hitler.
You see, Donald Hitler says, blow up Iran, not the nuclear sites, because he can’t damage them, so now he’s suggesting a widespread urban bombing campaign.
Can’t wait, to see Nazi US, and Nazi Joolandia bombers and jets being shot down, and the destruction of Israel.
One must wonder if Xi’s quiet removal has anything to do with this.
Ritter recently said that Russia won’t hit the UK. The fact that he said it in plain English, leads me to think it’s on the cards. The question is where?
Given that all three superpowers have unstable leadership, is a major concern. Donald Hitler is a disaster, near civil war, some say organised by MI6. Xi quietly out of the picture, and Putin up against a wall. Putin probably has many generals demanding Nazi UK gets tw@ted.
In respect of Donald Hitler, just about everyone has it in for him. Two US Nazi senetors making US foreign policy, when this is in violation of the Logan Act 1799, and sheeple are demanding these senators be arrested on return to Nazi Amerika. One of these senators has even challenged DH to arrest him. He might well do this, because he’s 100% guilty, tell Nukraine they’ll get xyz, while DH says it’s abc. If DH steps into this trap, it could be a full on civil war, which MI6 is apparently stoking. MI6 will do anything to dump DH and keep the UKraine war going.
On Xi, maybe it’s the military who has taken over? Just an idea.
THE RESULTS ARE IN
its been a hotly contested result
But the c*nt of the month winner
is again Kier Starmer
A lot of people voted for an outsider,
carl jones, who is he ?
Why is Mr pastry in the shite house ? 🙂
what is going on ? the jews are starving gaza to death and the world
is just standing by
just one small people the houthis are standing up for gaza
where is everybody ?
Who is the real threat to world peace?
A regime that;
-Hides its own nuclear arsenal (see Mordechai Vanunu expose)
-Blackmails key international players to comply with a particular political agenda (Epstein list)
-Refuses to sign the NPT(Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty)
-Vilifies lnternational law (Gaza, Lebanon, Syria etc
Or a government/nation that finds itself in the crosshairs of the above?
Donny exhibiting all the classic signs of being an Izzy cock-sucker… 🙄
LOL..
Whitney’s a Yankee, so he should know that the Americans have never stood by any treaty, ever, they just draght them up on toilet paper, wipe their arse on it and force vassal compliance.. changing the rules as they go along*..
The perfect example is the latest turd shat out by the WHO ..(yes that’s right who?) to force vaccination on the muggles when they role out the next fake panedemic op’..yeah dream on..
Guess who isn’t signing up to any of it, but actually drafted and paid for it?..
That’s right..yankees..because their military runs them..
* We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Karl Rove …lol at the ‘we’re an empire now’ bit..it makes him sound like a puffed up schoolboy with a big bag of sweets…what a vulgar imbecile..
By the way..Rove was neocon jewe…and what he’s actually referring to here is the current empire of the jewes..
they don’t actually give a shit about the construct known as America, outside pf the utility and opportunity it affords the swizzler international…or com-intern..
What we have here with Donny is a Classic Case of IDS – Iran Derangement Syndrome
🤯🤯🤯
Quit if you disagree with Israel-Gaza policy, Foreign Office staff told
Story by Amy Gibbon
NO the government is wrong it should not be supporting genocide
this is wrong the public have told the government to support palestine
like all the marches to not bomb the people of iraq
the government keeps disobeying the people
thats not democrasy thats dictatorship
Look at this con man drumpt- really a big time compromised idiot. If I lived in the USA, I would definitely be totally embarrassed to have such an ignorant clown as my country’s president. I truly feel sorry for the decent Americans.
Kudos to the Iranians leaders for defying this drumpt idiot.
To have talks with a lier and murderer SuperKike Drumpfensteinwas already a big mistake of Iran.
Well, you cant change the past. However now Iran should focus entierly on it’s own interests and stop helping ungrateful sunni arabs. All the help Iran gave to Syria and Palestinians was declared by sunni arabs as “interfering into arab affairs”. Iran should think only of itself. Even though it’s a tragedy that the gazans are bombed and starved – let their sunni “brothers” do something about it – they are so numerous and much closer to Gaza. After all why do they only hobnob with the kikes and do strictly nothing about Gaza? So, forward Iran, think only about yourself and your true allies like Hizbullah, Ansarullah and Al Hashd Ash Shaabi! Truth is on your side!
Britain has formally sanctioned two far-right Israeli ministers in a break with Washington.
( why not the whole of israel )
The UK was expected to freeze the assets of Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, and impose travel bans.
The move will see Britain join Canada, Australia, New Zealand and others in imposing sanctions on the pair, according to The Times. Responding to development, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said a decision by Britain to sanction two Israeli ministers was “not good.”
HATE SPEECH
He told reporters that the government would hold a special meeting early next week to decide how to respond to the “unacceptable decision”.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy had previously indicated the UK was preparing to impose sanctions over comments they made about Gaza,
where he said people leave or they get bombed simple
He told reporters that the government would hold a special meeting early next week to decide how to respond to the “unacceptable decision”.
Mr Smotrich has campaigned against allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying he would allow “not even a grain of wheat” to enter the beseiged warzone.
Mr Ben-Gvir earlier this year said “there is no need to bring in aid [to Gaza]. They have enough”. He branded the recent resumption of aid deliveries as a “serious and grave mistake”.
NOTE all aid has been stopped for some time
The sanctions, reportedly set to be announced on Tuesday, mean the ministers will be banned from entering Britain and will ban any financial institutions based in the UK from dealing with them.
Israel’s subsequent military and starvation campaign has brought the deaths of more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities in the Hamas-run strip, and left a population of more than 2 million people largely displaced.
All theater and distraction from the digital panopticon knocking down our doors, as the sheep unsafely graze.
London mayor Sadiq Khan is knighted by King Charles in ceremony at Buckingham Palace
Story by Alastair Lockhart
i thought only pedophiles got knighted ?
It doesn’t matter what Donmeh Iran agrees to, if the Jews want war they will get it. To stage their choreographed war they first must make it look as if the opponents are ‘real and antagonistic’. Remember, they’re all in on it.
Actors: Trump, Netanyahu, Ayatollah, Putin, Starmer, Hamas, Xi etc.
Producers: Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros. Lazard Inc., Warburg & Co., Rothschild & Co., BlackRock, Rockefeller CM, Israel Moses Seif
Directors: Rothschild, ,Chabad Lubavitch, ADL-CIA-KGB-Mossad-MI5, Soros, Larry Ellison, Sam Altman etc.
Now you know how it works, thanks to me of course
Iran is Israel’s enemy so I expect robotic Trump has been told they are ‘Amalek’.
How much longer has America got before it implodes?
If this is true, it means that the American President is, for lack of a better term, a “lying, Jew-dazed see you en tea.” What a disappointment! At least he has convinced untold millions world-wide, that we need ‘another Hitler.’ For that, he deserves the Knight’s Cross, though maybe in polystyrene.
Lord Hermer visited a mosque in Liverpool that is allegedly associated with antisemitic rhetoric
dont be so damn stupid jews are starving people to death out ther
Ritter, in this video continues to make the case that UKraine will bear the brunt for the nuclear bomber strikes, but insisted that Nazi UK was behind it. Twice now, Ritter takes this line.
But I really do wonder, why Russia would hit UKraine, even if they took out Nazi UK facilities in Russia, that this would be fair, when UK Nazis, for years now, have been attacking targets in Russia, including the Kremlin, so as Ritter says, the Russians have the legal grounds, but not the moral grounds.
Of course, Ritter says this in respect of using nukes. It’s perfectly possible for key targets in Nazi UK to be hit with hypersonic weapons. Take out MI6, GCHQ, Fylingdales, Portsmouth Harbour, and Faslane.
Ritter also supports what I’ve been saying about Nazi Amerika blocking the use of Trident.
Now I return to Nazi RAF training to hit St Petersburg and Moscow in low level strikes from Finland. I know, here we go again, me suggesting something that won’t happen. The nuke bomber attack was more outlandish, and it happened.
Putin needs to get this through his cloth ears. You are facing an audacious attack on St Petersburg and Moscow, using nukes. Hitting Nukraine won’t prevent Nazi MI6 from doing this.
Donald Hitler is a no one, he either lies, or he doesn’t know. MI6 and the CIA are out of control. Things are so bad, that no elected sheeple knows anything about their illegal clandestined operations, and I dare say, they could call in their respective intel agency leaders and ask them, and I bet they don’t even know what’s going on.
It’s one thing knowing officially, and knowing word of mouth, off the record.
If the Russians have a smidgen of hope with these chats, you need a reality check, because any deal, isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Say it before, this is to the death. Either the Nazis die, or the Russians die, or everyone dies.
Ritter, in this video continues to make the case that UKraine will bear the brunt for the nuclear bomber strikes, but insisted that Nazi UK was behind it. Twice now, Ritter takes this line.
But I really do wonder, why Russia would hit UKraine, even if they took out Nazi UK facilities in Russia, that this would be fair, when UK Nazis, for years now, have been attacking targets in Russia, including the Kremlin, so as Ritter says, the Russians have the legal grounds, but not the moral grounds.
Of course, Ritter says this in respect of using nukes. It’s perfectly possible for key targets in Nazi UK to be hit with hypersonic weapons. Take out MI6, GCHQ, Fylingdales, Portsmouth Harbour, and Faslane.
Ritter also supports what I’ve been saying about Nazi Amerika blocking the use of Trident.
Now I return to Nazi RAF training to hit St Petersburg and Moscow in low level strikes from Finland. I know, here we go again, me suggesting something that won’t happen. The nuke bomber attack was more outlandish, and it happened.
Putin needs to get this through his cloth ears. You are facing an audacious attack on St Petersburg and Moscow, using nukes. Hitting Nukraine won’t prevent Nazi MI6 from doing this.
Donald Hitler is a no one, he either lies, or he doesn’t know. MI6 and the CIA are out of control. Things are so bad, that no elected sheeple knows anything about their illegal clandestined operations, and I dare say, they could call in their respective intel agency leaders and ask them, and I bet they don’t even know what’s going on.
It’s one thing knowing officially, and knowing word of mouth, off the record.
If the Russians have a smidgen of hope with these chats, you need a reality check, because any deal, isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Say it before, this is to the death. Either the Nazis die, or the Russians die, or everyone dies.
https://www.youtube.com/live/v6lM0C8qR5Y?si=or0hBkrEMXAGGSTZ
thank you mr. crowley
10 to 1 Trump is a circumcised yid pretending to be a ‘white man’.
All the retards cannot distinguish between “Iran” and the negligible amount of bipedal ape biology on it (same as any country)
does anyone still read carl jones ?
i have nothing against assholes
its just they should not be on here
MPs call for UK to recognise Palestine after Government sanctions ministers
Story by Harry Taylor, Will Durrant, Abbie Llewelyn and Rhiannon James, PA Political Staff
MPs have unanimously called for the Government to recognise the state of Palestine at a summit next week, hours after the Foreign Secretary confirmed the sanctioning of two Israeli government ministers
for hate crimes
Foreign minister Hamish Falconer faced repeated cross-party calls from MPs to recognise Palestine at the meeting in New York despite threats of reprisals from israel
Lammy confirms Israeli ministers sanctioned
sanctioned ? they should have ben arrested
Israel – Netanyahu government on the brink of explosion: 48-hour ultimatum to the war on gaza Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition is dangerously wavering after the explosive ultimatum launched Monday by the ultra-Orthodox Shas party.
chesterton–your postscript says the important thing: the Rove quote I had already heard from a Jew making no secret of the fact that Jews were the active ones. He said it does not matter what the goyim say, it matters what Jews DO
Jones gets special treatment primarily because he is a jew like all the rest of the mofos at this website.