Iran wants nuclear weapons and we should not cooperate with the mullah nutjobs who run Iran.
I strongly disagree with the idea that 20% enrichment of Uranium is the biggest step toward an Iranian nuclear bomb:
Israel, the Trump administration and the incoming Biden administration are not commenting on the likely more significant news that Iran has decided to start enriching uranium up to 20% purity.
This is a major step forward to a nuclear bomb, the most significant one the Islamic Republic has taken since the 2015 nuclear deal.
That's ridiculous. The biggest steps take place in the shadows (off limits, underground, or subcontracted to North Korea). The new publicly proclaimed enrichment is the public relations "bribe us to scale back this visible part of our nuclear weapons program." I mean, if you believe the Obama administration, Iran never had a nuclear weapons program to begin with. So who cares if they have enriched Uranium if you buy that load of bull.
And this is on top of Iran's usual "we'll screw with oil exports" threat:
South Korea mobilised its forces in the Strait of Hormuz and dispatched an anti-piracy unit to the Gulf on Monday afternoon after a ship bearing its flag, the MT Hankuk Chemi, was intercepted off the coast of Oman and escorted into Iranian waters.
Please. Anything of Iran's that floats would be sunk if Iran persists in this type of interference. But that is unlikely because even the pro-Iran Europeans would shudder at the thought of oil exports ending.
God help us but Biden will come to an agreement with Iran to scale back that enrichment and futile oil threats, and it will be hailed as a great victory for nuclear non-proliferation. But in reality Iran will prepare everything else for the day when it can have nuclear warheads installed.
Hell, I would be surprised if Iran doesn't buy the initial warheads from North Korea to deter an attack while Iran goes fully nuclear-capable in weapons production.
Have a super sparkly day.
UPDATE: I keep hoping that the increasingly restless and unhappy Iranian people will overthrow the mullah-regime in Iran and kill at the source the Biden impulse to restore the farcical (and dangerous) Obama outreach to Tehran.
UPDATE: Related thoughts.
