Top official says Iran ready for higher uranium enrichment

Donny sure is winning here.

Remember how Obama put in place a deal that prevent Iran from enriching uranium in large quantities and to high levels? So do I.

Remember how Iran was abiding by that agreement until Donny withdrew from it and started choking Iran's economy? So do I.

To have nuclear power in the form of power plants which do not require high enriched uranium are acceptable, but still a risk. Should even one power plant become disabled and radiation leaks, the entire world ecology is affected. To enrich to a level of producing nuclear arms is a major problem. Such arms even if by accident is detonated can produce a much worse result than Hiroshima's physical devastation plus much heavier affect ecologically. So the world do not want any more.

Iran is in essense being totally "irresponsible" as is N Korea to themselves and to the rest of the world, regardless of ideologies or race or politics.

The idea of making a deal or having made a deal does not make sense in such a situation to begin with. There is only two answers, to stop or not to stop.

Sad that those who have the power to stop all this do not have the respect for all life. Sad too that the world do not have the vision and the power, mostly the will, to stop those who must be stopped.

Ok, how many people predicted Iran's uranium enrichment would be at 5% by 2019 under the old deal?

A top aide to Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic is ready to begin enriching uranium beyond the level set by Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Congrats, Trump fans. You got exactly what you wanted.

Remember how Obama put in place a deal that prevent Iran from enriching uranium

Which bought them time and really didn’t do anything, which they were caught violating a few times, unacceptable.

Remember how Iran was abiding by that agreement

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-nuclear-deal-israel-lies-france-iaea-us-no-violations-jcopa-nuclear-deal/

Again, tearing up that deal was one of the best thing the President could have done.

The US and Europe (and others) had a deal with Iran to not enrich uranium to the levels needed to make bombs. Brilliant diplomacy on Obama's part. And there lies the problem for Trump. Obama dissed him once so everything that is Obama's must be destroyed. He withdraws from the Iran deal with no idea whatsoever as to what replace it with. And stage two off this debacle will be the US (or just Trump) shrieking that Iran must not have the bomb! Side step the fact that Iran has always said it did not intend to make nuke bombs. Israel's Netenyahu will be wetting himself claiming Iran will have a bomb by Tuesday next week. This of course helps him to deflect from his corruption investigation. And Trump, in his bid to be dictator for life is likely to start a war with Iran. Because he and his cronies know that the American people rally around the president when a war is decided. George Bush, a bumbling idiot, managed to get a second term on this basis. And Trump, simpleton that he is, knows that the American people fall for this trick every time.

Coming your way: Iran is a threat to the world and must be destroyed.

America was the first country to violate the nuclear agreement.

What? Lol

Actually, it does.

If this were remotely true, we'd have a cite to that evidence. Instead, we get a link to an article that undermines this from the poster asserting this.

I see that only the one-sided American liberal narrative we have to accept. Well, you can drink the magic liberal one-sided kool-aid, I won’t.

You're the one who posted the link. Too funny how you are now disclaiming it. You really aren't any good at critical discourse given how often you disagree with yourself and post irrelevance.

Over a deal that was flawed as a two-headed rooster.

A deal so flawed it prevented Iran from obtaining nukes. Your definition of flawecbis extremely flawed. ROFL!

liberals ONLY care about a one-sided point of view.

This is rich coming from the poster that disagrees with his own posts when they are quoted by liberals!

Obviously Iran isn't going to allow 24 hour access to all sites in their entire country, including military. Whoever wrote that was just being dumb.

It's not something Trump can get without regime change since no country in the world would allow that. If your response is some stupid, uninformed, "Hell yeah we want it and we'll get it" let's just end the discussion now.

The 2015 nuclear deal was good for Iran and the EU because the France and Germany can invest in Iranian Oil business and will lift all nuclear-related economic sanctions on Iran and freeing up tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue and frozen assets.

Iran can go back to enrich Uranium pre-2015 and non restriction after 2025 as 2015 Obama - Iran nuclear treaty. Iran has benefited from the 2015 nuclear treaty. Iran overseas billions dollars worth of assets were freed and most of money went to Yemen Houthi rebel group, the Hezbolla group in Lebanon and Syria, Syria Government and Islamic extreme group in Syria. The small amount money was used for its citizens.

The nuclear deal was not intended for permanent restriction on Iran nuclear enrichment program and the deal has sunset clauses’—these are the clauses with restrictions that sunset or end between 2026 and 2031. After 2025, the Iranian regime will own the nuclear weapon. The Iran nuclear enrichment program should be restricted permanently if the EU and the UN do not want war in the Persian gulf. Iran will earn a trillion of dollars from the Oil and Iran will interfere in other Middle East states' affair and support Islamic terrorist groups around the world. The Iranian regime was not using the income from Oil on its peoples' welfare. The oil money was using civil war in Yemen and Syria.

The President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal was not wrong. It doesn't matter Iranian regime starting to enrich nuclear now or after 2025. The US sanctions will reduce Iranian regime financial and weapons, supporting in Yemen and Islamic armed groups in Syria. Also, Hezbolla is building up its military at Israel border.

People need to understand the more money Iranian regime have, the more problem creates in the Middle East and other parts of the world by the Iranian clergy regime. The Iranian clergy regime must go for the sake of Iranian peoples

Well, seems a lloootttt of fact checking is needed here, so:

1) 20% enriched uranium is LOW ENRICHED URANIUM, according to the definitions of the NNPT and America's nuclear weapons scientists (who wanted to term it 'non weapons useful')

2) having a stockpile of Low Enriched Uranium, no matter if it's the size of a mountain, gets a nation no closer to having a nuclear weapon, or even having a microgram of nuclear weapons grade uranium, if the enrichment process that nation has is, like the Iranian one, incapable of achieving the production of usable Highly Enriched Uranium (think the difference between being able to smelt steel, and the ability to smelt high carbon pure steel, the words may be the same, but the processes are very different)

3) the terms of the JCPOA include that superfluous limits Iran agreed to only apply if there are no US sanctions on the Iranian NNPT compliant nuclear medicine and energy program. Saying Iran broke those limits after the US reimposed those sanctions is like saying a husband cheated on his wife after she had divorced him and was having sex with another man, rather ridiculous. (Oh, the limits were superfluous because the NNPT by itself blocks all paths to a nuclear weapon)

4) the money that the US returned to Iran as part of the JCPOA process was Iranian money that the ICJ had ordered the US to return to Iran. The alternative to returning it was having American trade profits seized by court order and transferred to Iran, including more money as penalty for failure to comply.

No reason Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. Israel has them. Balance of power.

@FizzBit

No reason Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. Israel has them. Balance of power.

There once was an expression used when sworn adversaries both possessed nuclear weapons: balance of terror.

That presupposed that the risk of annihilation would restrain one from a first strike. In the case of Iran, a theocratic state which stresses the other-worldly rewards of martyrdom, I’m not so sure restraint is there.

The term existential threat is overused these days but it is true in the case of Israel. Two or three nukes and it’s all over. If you think Jews are going to sit back and be victims once more, think again. And if anyone thinks the Ayatollah gives a fart about collateral damage to Muslim Palestinians or the Al-Aqsa mosque then they are delusional.

As has been mentioned above, Trumpers should come out of their delusion and fess up to the real reason they, and the Dimwit, don't like this agreement - President Obama negotiated it and it has his name attached to it - just like the ACA. And for the MAGA crowd, who want to "take American back", anything with an African-American's name on it has to be erased.

Doesn't matter if it keeps Iran from enriching uranium to weapons grade level, doesn't matter if it means you lose you and your family's health insurance - if Obama had anything to do with it, then we have to "repeal it."

And given Donnie's latest dementia-induced statements; "My father was born in Germany", "We'll have brand-new Sherman tanks", "The Continental Army took back the British Airfields during the Revolutionary War", coupled with Neocons Bolton and Pompeo, the potential to stumble into a war has significantly increased...

He was never capable of being President and with his ongoing mental deterioration, is clearly incapable now.