I saw TFF perform once, with Blondie opening up....which gives me an idea, when Roland opens his mouth it creates a vacuum kind of like a black hole, I wonder if we could use it as a nuclear deterrent?
Met two Iranians (that I know) of in my life, one a US born student daughter of an Iraqi mother and Iranian father, the other an Iranian emigrant who was my boss in Dell. Both called themselves Iranian, largely because they and their families were not fans of the Shah.
There were a lot of Iranians/Persians attending college in the US during the 70s. The Shah's secret police were notorious so hearing they were not fans of the Shah isn't surprising. I heard a lot of those students complaining about the United States government. Who they rightfully said was complicit in propping up the Shah's government and his brutal secret police.
It's called the War Powers act.. Passed after the Gulf of Tonkin incident I believe. In theory, the authority is provisional. But the President is nevertheless expected to consult with congress expeditiously and even before he takes action if possible. Meeting with Gang of Five is expected.
I will stick to my claim that Iran has no 90% uranium needed for the bomb. it is laborius process. Plus the bomb itself.
Just like Iraq didn't have WMDs. I'm sure.
"If we have nuclear weapons why can't we use them?". Remember?
THIS is a Trump post: short, narcissistic, and wrong.
Hey, I've paid a lot of tax dollars for those nukes! I deserve to get some value from them!
Any Idiot can nominate any other Idiot for the Nobel Prize. Getting the Nobel Prize commitee to take a nomination seriously is the hard part.
I thin Trump's air strikes were a terrible mistake, but let's not whitewash the Iranian goverment. it is pretty obvious they are after a Nuclear Weapon.
I'm not sure this was answered. trump announced the B2s returned to "Missouri." Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri -- about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City -- is reported to be the current home of the B2 Spirit bombers. By the way, Iran is over 7,000 miles from the base. The B2's cruising speed is reportedly 560 mph so it would have been a round-trip of over 24 hours.
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I have no illusions about Iran and the Ayatollah. But I don't think they were building a bomb. Just like I didn't believe that Iraq was. These are many of the same experts. I'll say one thing about Bush. He built a consensus of US allies before he launched his war on Iraq.
I understand the cynicism. I don't expect that. But I do think it guarantees strikes against the United States. And it's hard to say we don't deserve them when we do things like this.
Not cynical, just inaccurate; nukes can't really fit in a suitcase let alone a briefcase. As someone mentioned before, it'll probably be a bioweapon.
Most of the intelligence agencies (including US) had determined that Iran had NOT decided to construct nuclear weapons, and were NOT constructing nuclear weapons. They were developing the resources that would allow them to do so if they decided to. They were in the position that they could produce weapons grade uranium within weeks / months. There is still a big step between producing weapons grade uranium and constructing nuclear weapons. Remember that of the eight countries who have possessed nuclear weapons (not counting ex soviet states) one has decommissioned their weapons and only one has ever used them. Almost certainly the main intent of Iran in obtaining a nuclear weapon would be to deter the sort of attack that it is undergoing. To repeat Iran is the only country to have been attacked by WMD since WW2. Also to repeat Khamenei (the supreme leader) has been consistently against their development and use, which is probably why there was no attempt to assassinate him as there is no guarantee a successor would have the same view.
If nukes was not their goal, why enrich uranium to 60%? There is no civilian use for 60% HEU.
To prove they could? As a bargaining chip? To improve their technological capabilities? The fact is that is that all the evidence presented says they didn't even have a functional bomb program let alone being weeks away from building one. All Trump has done is further destabilize the Middle East and increase the risks to US citizens around the world.
I'm not white washing Iran. But: "As of 2025, Natanz is enriching uranium up to 60% U-235, a level approaching weapons-grade." (wikipedia) So, 60% is not weapons grade. And there are steps after you get 90%.
Surely Iran understands that enrichment to 60% would scare the crap out of the USA and Israel, causing them to consider military action. If they kept enrichment levels to purely civilian numbers, 4%, they would have a damn good argument that their intentions are purely peaceful.
And there is the question of how much of that work was done after Trump tore up the previous deal.
And they did understand that and signed a deal agreeing not. They stuck to the deal, then Trump unilaterally tore it up giving them no incentive not to enrich it further. And again unless there has been some radical change in the evidence since March they weren't trying to go further and weren't working on a bomb. There was precisely zero threat of an Iranian bomb and so there was zero practical reason for either Israel or the USA to bomb Iran's nuclear sites.
Israel maybe. But why would it scare the US? Are you afraid of Russia? How about former Soviet Republics? India? Pakistan? China? North Korea?
Dress rehearsals for trumps proposal of migrant fight UFC?
The Hunger Games. American Style.
None of those nations are funding and arming religious nutcase militias that have killed thousands of people and call for other nations to be destroyed on a daily basis.
Really? Do you believe all the crap you read? Yes, the four former Soviet Republics other than Russia agreed to give up the nuclear weapons they said they had, But how do you know that they all did?
You dont? You think a nation that is relatively poor. A nation that yes, most definitely has supported rogue elements that with very little in the way of a nuclear weapons program is of greater concern than Russia? Not a concern because Trump is Putin's bitch maybe?Ok.
