[andmagazine.com] The implications of that development are catastrophic. A revolutionary, messianic regime, which believes the Mahdi, an Islamic superman, will appear at any moment and that the apocalypse is nigh cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. It will not husband them and manage them rationally. It will use them.We are standing on the precipice of a catastrophic event, one which may lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and ultimately to the deaths of tens of millions.
In June of this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released two reports on the Iranian nuclear weapons program. They are sobering. Iran is now enriching uranium well beyond the level agreed to in the so-called Iran Deal. It is researching and perhaps building advanced centrifuges. It has resumed enrichment of uranium at its underground nuclear facility in Fordaw.
Iran now has enough low enriched uranium (LEU) to produce a nuclear weapon. Best estimates are that Iran could transform that LEU into the highly enriched uranium (HEU) needed to make a bomb in somewhere between 3 and 4 months. As Iran steadily creeps up the enrichment level of its LEU that timeline shortens by the day.
| But what about the recent bombings that supposedly set the progrqm back by two years? |
The sites in question are known to have been connected to an Iranian crash program in the early 2000’s that had the goal of quickly building five operational nuclear weapons. Those sites may be active again, and there may be an entire portion of the Iranian nuclear weapons program hidden from our view.