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NickB79

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25. It's in the very title of the article

Sun Jun 22, 2025, 08:45 PM

Jun 22

"No evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon"

Note it doesn't use the word "imminent ".

Uranium enrichment above 5%, when no civilian reactor needs such enrichment, it in itself evidence of an attempt to build a nuke.

Now, you can argue that they gave up on that ambition years ago, or they hit technical roadblocks to reach 90% that meant a functional nuke was still years away. I agree, there's no evidence a working nuke was imminent.

But what you can't do is say there is no evidence they were, at some point, angling for a nuclear warhead while acknowledging a stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

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IAEA - there was no imminent threat [View all] malaise Jun 22 OP

I didn't think it was possible MorbidButterflyTat Jun 22 #1

Add to this dilemma.... FarPoint Jun 22 #2

Uranium enriched to 60% ForgedCrank Jun 22 #3

Weapons Grade Is 90% Minimum ProfessorGAC Jun 22 #6

The point is ForgedCrank Jun 22 #18

Do You Not Know What "Imminent" Means? ProfessorGAC Jun 22 #22

And I disagree. ForgedCrank Jun 22 #28

We are not the trustworthy, peace loving choie Jun 22 #38

It's in the very title of the article NickB79 Jun 22 #25

they don't need to now SonOfNebanaube Jun 22 #39

But most of the work is getting it to 60%, 60% to 90% goes a lot faster EX500rider Jun 23 #63

I wondered about this dsc Jun 23 #66

This is why I have mixed feelings. EndlessWire Jun 22 #7

Iran's one nuclear reactor for energy uses Uranium 3-5%.... Melon Jun 22 #9

I'm right there ForgedCrank Jun 22 #19

Here's an article that comes to the same conclusion appmanga Jun 22 #30

Such certitude! dpibel Jun 22 #31

I guess ForgedCrank Jun 22 #34

Islamaphobia! dpibel Jun 22 #43

Screech all you want, ForgedCrank Jun 22 #45

LOL dpibel Jun 22 #46

Sorry I ForgedCrank Jun 22 #47

no SonOfNebanaube Jun 22 #40

What was the rush? choie Jun 22 #41

At this point I have EndlessWire Jun 23 #49

For about half a century, all of the world's research reactors ran on highly enriched uranium. NNadir Jun 23 #50

You are not going to convince me EndlessWire Jun 23 #57

You are not going to convince me that enriching uranium is only carried out for warlike purposes. NNadir Jun 23 #58

What did I say? EndlessWire Jun 23 #70

This is nonsense. The Petten reactor which produced all of the world's medical isotopes... NNadir Jun 23 #55

Have the ForgedCrank Jun 23 #64

Don't pretend to understand nuclear technology. You don't.. NNadir Jun 23 #65

Yea, sometimes ForgedCrank Jun 23 #67

Thank you for the frank acknowledgement. NNadir Jun 23 #68

No problem. ForgedCrank Jun 23 #69

My family is not violent. We don't call for killing people out of fear and ignorance, not even beating them up. NNadir Jun 24 #72

Excuse me. EndlessWire Jun 24 #71

I don't know why or IF they are enriching uranium. Neither do the war mongers here. I have historically... NNadir Jun 24 #73

Dubya started a war based on lies and was never held accountable Skittles Jun 22 #4

The Epstein Files! BidenRocks Jun 22 #5

Kick dalton99a Jun 22 #8

That was his own intelligence community assessment surfered Jun 22 #10

Intelligence is not a word one associated with malaise Jun 22 #12

Truly. surfered Jun 22 #15

...and dysenteric whaleshit... lastlib Jun 22 #16

W was Cheney's puppet Skittles Jun 22 #24

So now Russia and China are talking about sending nuclear war heads to Iran. multigraincracker Jun 22 #11

THIS malaise Jun 22 #14

The 1953 Iranian coup d'etat, aka Operation Ajax Celerity Jun 22 #27

Thanks for this article. multigraincracker Jun 22 #33

How dare you choie Jun 22 #42

"It's Only Make Believe" sinkingfeeling Jun 22 #13

Al Jazeera? Mosby Jun 22 #17

Netanyahu on Iran's imminent nuclear threat iemanja Jun 22 #29

It's hard to trust Israeli intelligence when Israel's leadership are all just as corrupt & selfserving as ours SunImp Jun 23 #48

Just mobile anthrax labs? Were any of those ever found? LiberalArkie Jun 22 #20

You may have forgotten those were "unknown knowns"........... AZ8theist Jun 22 #23

Any minute now! Aussie105 Jun 22 #21

Nailed it malaise Jun 22 #26

The IAEA monitored it and documents the 60% Uranium. Plus Iran releases info on it. Melon Jun 23 #51

Do any of you remember the Great Bogeyman of 1964? The Domino theory and the Tonkin Gulf Incident? Ping Tung Jun 22 #32

Recommended. H2O Man Jun 22 #35

AGREED, there was NO "imminent threat"--- Jack Valentino Jun 22 #36

Or offering.... Wonder how big a crypto deposit they made. yourout Jun 23 #53

This message was self-deleted by its author choie Jun 22 #37

He wants that vacation property on the Gaza strip, Gabbard told him the truth spanone Jun 22 #44

Deja vu all over again Lulu KC Jun 23 #52

Snookered again I was. applegrove Jun 23 #54

And whatever threat did exist, now it's worse FullySupportDems Jun 23 #56

I asked for evidence in another thread... -misanthroptimist Jun 23 #59

He did this for diversion. His numbers were tanking. spanone Jun 23 #60

Indeed malaise Jun 23 #61

They also said this: EX500rider Jun 23 #62