(A single nuke in the hands of the Iranians is a deterrent, not a threat. It is racist to think they would launch immediately after developing one and stupid because the only nations they supposedly would target each have over 200 nuclear weapons. So that 'threat' line of propaganda is not only ignorant and racist at it's core but it depends on the target audience being both of those to work.)
(It is ludicrous to think we are currently listening to leaders of a nation who are in the process of committing genocide and ethnic cleansing who also possess 200 illegal nuclear weapons when they breathlessly screech about the possibility of Iran developing ONE nuke. Iran is NOT committing genocide for the purpose of land acquisition. Israel is. Iran is NOT using starvation as a weapon of war. Israel is. Iran is NOT in the process of trying to expand it's borders and remake the Middle East so they can become a major regional player. Israel is. This is absurd.)
(If you stand with Israel at this point... you are mentally ill.)
from The Intercept
Israel launched its war with Iran last week with what it called a “preemptive strike.”
Iran — according to the Israeli government — was dangerously close to producing a nuclear weapon, and Israel needed to carry out a
series of assassinations of military leadership, bombings in
residential neighborhoods, and attacks on nuclear production sites to
stop them.
The U.S. has been providing direct military support in the days
since, using its defensive weapons systems to shoot down ballistic
missiles that Iran launched in retaliation for Israel’s surprise attack.
Israel wants more. Only the U.S. is in possession of the 30,000-pound
“bunker buster” bombs that Israel says can punch through and destroy
Iran’s underground nuclear enrichment facility in Fordow. Israel is
calling on the U.S. to join the war and launch a series of attacks end
Iran’s nuclear threat.
But according to the U.S. intelligence community, that threat is not real.
“We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that
[Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei has not reauthorized
the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has
probably built on him to do so,” reads the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment,
the intelligence community’s official evaluation of threats to U.S.
citizens, “the Homeland,” and U.S. interests which was published in
March.
On Saturday, Susan Miller, the former CIA station chief in Israel who retired from the agency in 2024, told SpyTalk that current officials maintained that assessment...
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