One of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States last month was mostly destroyed, setting work there back significantly. But the two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months if Iran wants it to, according to a recent U.S. assessment of the destruction caused by the military operation, five current and former U.S. officials familiar with the assessment told NBC News.
The assessment, part of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to determine the status of Iran’s nuclear program since the facilities were struck, was briefed to some U.S. lawmakers, Defense Department officials and allied countries in recent days, four of those people said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom agreed in a phone call Monday to set an August deadline for a nuclear agreement.
If no deal is reached by then, the three European powers plan to trigger the UN “snapback” mechanism, which would automatically reinstate global sanctions on Iran’s arms trade, banking sector, and nuclear program.
The possible reactivation of UN snapback sanctions threatens to dismantle the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and push Iran toward enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels of 90 percent. This crisis has deep roots in the U.S. withdrawal from the deal in 2018 under President Donald Trump, which led Iran to reduce compliance and expand its nuclear program.
If they don’t make nuclear weapons and you attack them, then sanction them… Why would they not make nuclear arms. They get attacked either way and if they complete the weapons countries won’t attack them without hesitation.
Also if they continue to attack the U.S.'s degrading respect around the world isn’t going to increase but rather decrease further, all the while the current administration trying to convince voters who supposively supported “staying out” and said “not our problem” what is going on across the Atlantic. No one wants to start a war in the middle east except oil companies, defense contractors, and rich investors.
No one wants to start a war in the middle east except oil companies, defense contractors, and rich investors
Those are the people this country serves now. After this week, I feel like it couldn’t be any more obvious that laws exist only to protect those individuals and make them more money. As long as it will keep them rich, why not go ahead and just start WWIII or at least a second cold war?
you’re not wrong and you should know that this is an example of manufacturing consent; iran has no nuclear armament aspirations and has always cooperated w governing nuclear bodies whenever it wasn’t controlled by american spies.
This is blatantly false. If Iran has no nuclear armament aspirations they wouldn’t be building enrichment facilities under a mountain. They wouldn’t have uranium enriched well beyond the needs of power production. They could just buy enriched uranium directly. They could use heavy water reactors that don’t need enriched uranium.
At some point their claims of not seeking a nuke starts looking like a lie.
Intelligence reports: they aren’t making weapons. How do you know? Inspections, and well see some of the cameras are still functional and monitoring their facilities because they agreed to participate in the shit deal they were given to get people off their backs. And then you terminated U.S. involvement making it so you longer had any say in the agreement. Now your complaining they aren’t following what you terminated, and they still offered to go to the table and negotiate a new agreement if your dumbass could do 1 thing right.
Continent relations that have suffered since he took office: Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania(Australia for us Americans), North America, and South America.
Continent relations that may not be in detriment: Antarctica.
The things I wish could change in this country won’t happen, so I’m just bitching into the void.