from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 04 Mar 11:54
https://lemmy.world/post/43840938
Fears US-Israeli onslaught could lead regime to push for bomb or embolden other groups to steal uranium stockpile
The US-Israeli onslaught against Iran is intended to resolve a 24-year standoff over Tehran’s nuclear programme, but it runs the risk of backfiring and driving the regime towards making a secret bomb, proliferation experts have warned.
The regime in Tehran has long insisted that the programme is for civilian purposes and it has no intention of making a nuclear weapon. However, since two undeclared sites, for uranium enrichment and heavy water plutonium production, were discovered in 2002, the programme has been treated with intense suspicion.
A nuclear deal in 2015 imposed severe limits and thorough inspections on Iran but when Donald Trump walked out of the agreement in 2018, triggering its collapse, Iran ramped up its work on enrichment and other aspects of the programme.
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Well, duh. At this point can you really blame them?
They had a deal in place to not make a nuke, then Trump comes in and uses the deal as toilet paper. After getting rid of the deal the US bombs your nuclear facilities with no regards for danger of contamination or if they are civilian or military in nature. Then you start negotiations with them and during the negotiations you fucking bomb their leadership and kill them, committing perfidy basically. Yeah at this point they see getting nukes as the only actual deterrent they have left.
Not to mention we’ve been fucking with them for decades, i.e Stuxnet
I’m not a dictator of a country. But if I was, the moral lesson I would be learning is that it’s better to have nuclear weapons than not, because the US will invade me regardless
Or refuse to uphold agreements of protection for giving them up. Like Ukraine.
Right
But I thought that we “obliterated” their nuclear capability last year?
whitehouse.gov/…/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-be…