The Biden administration’s ongoing strategy in the face of any crisis is either to hide and hope the problem will disappear, or to make the problem even worse with inane comments and wrongheaded actions.
International nuclear inspectors were said to be alarmed to find that Iran had enriched uranium to 84% purity.
As Iran escalates, America declines (largely because of its leader).
Should America proceed to issue a “credible military threat” in response to Israel’s request, the most pressing question would be how credible that threat could be. How would Iran regard it in light of the Biden administration’s relentless appeasement efforts? Nonetheless, a gesture of solidarity would be a help to Israel.
“Cohen: US must immediately issue credible military threat against Iran,“ JNS, February 21, 2023:
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday called on the United States to issue a credible military threat against Iran, after International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors found uranium enriched to near weapons-grade in the Islamic Republic.
“Iran is very close to 90% enrichment of uranium. The United States must put a credible military threat on the table immediately,” said Cohen at an event in Jerusalem hosted by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. Cohen also slammed Iran for being the world’s “number one” financier of global terrorism.
The IAEA said on Monday it was in talks with Tehran after inspectors last week detected uranium enriched to 84% in the Islamic Republic.
Bloomberg reported on Sunday, citing two senior diplomats, that the IAEA was trying to clarify how Tehran accumulated the material, which is at the highest level of enrichment found by monitors in the country to date.
Iran has been enriching uranium to up to 60% since April 2021. Three months ago, it started enriching to 60% at a second site at Fordow.
Earlier this month, the IAEA chastised the Islamic Republic for modifying the connection between the two groups of high-tech machines at its Fordow plant. The change was discovered during an unannounced inspection on Jan. 21 at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), a location built into a mountain where inspectors are beefing up checks after Iran said it would drastically increase enrichment.
A diplomat cited in a Reuters report implied that the 84% enriched uranium was found at the same site as the reconfigured cascades, or clusters, of centrifuges….
The Green Avenger says
Don’t be ridiculous! Bidet will never back Israel. The best we can hope for is for him not SABOTAGE the Israeli military operation. If Israel is smart, and they are, they won’t even give him a heads up until first bomb has already exploded.
Fitna says
Exactly TGA…if anything Biden will pass sensitive info about Israeli plans to attack to his puppet-masters in Iran. I have no doubt Biden is a paid lackey of the Muslim elites and cannot be trusted.
Ofc as Israel is a US ally they probably have to go through the motions so at least they can’t claim they weren’t informed.
But for 20 years we’ve been watching Iran build their nuke program while the US (and Israel) stood by and did nothing-fault also lies with Republicans and esp. Bush and Trump.
We learned nothing from WW2, even Netanyahu said if anything we should’ve learned is that “when a madman says he’s going to kill you, believe him.”
It’s do or die for the West, are we going to keep pretending (as we have for decades) that Muslims are not a danger to us? Should we keep waiting and seeing if they now build those nukes and fire them at us? 9/11 and 40k other terrorist attacks wasn’t enough proof? Or should we use some common sense and get them before that happens?
Ofc it’ll be up to Israel, as the dunderhead in the White House can’t be relied on for doing anything including tying his own shoes. It’s an embarrassment for the US that a loon like Biden is in power and a danger to the whole world as dictators can get away with anything right now.
John Smith says
Exactly, In a situation like this you’ve got to get in first.
If a mad man was loading his gun up and he said to you, “just wait till I’ve put these bullets in my gun, then I’ll blast your brains out.” If you had any sense you’d shoot him first, or at the very least, stop him before he managed to load his gun.
Trump would of stopped Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He said, “under my watch Iran wont become a nuclear threat to us.”