Schrödinger's nukes

There’s absolutely no evidence that Iran has, or has ever possessed, nuclear weapons. Indeed, the Obama Administration negotiated an agreement whereby Iran agreed not to develop nuclear weapons or even enrich uranium to the purity necessary to create a fission bomb. Trump tore up that agreement, but there’s no evidence that Iran made any progress toward an atom bomb since then. Still, last June Trump claimed to have obliterated Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons program. Now he’s claiming that his attack on Iran was justified because their nuclear weapons posed an immanent existential threat. So is the Iranian atom bomb dead or alive?

“Speaking from the East Room at the start of a ceremony to award the Medal of Honor to a trio of U.S. Army soldiers who’d served in the Second World War, the Vietnam War and Afghanistan, the president said Iran’s ballistic missile capability would have “soon” been able to reach beyond hitting American bases in the Middle East and Europe to hit “our beautiful America” while making it “extraordinarily difficult” for future airstrikes to halt the nuclear weapons program he claimed to have “obliterated” last June.

 

“An Iranian regime armed with long range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people. Our country itself would be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat.”

Well, it’s Trump, so you already know it’s bullshit on stilts. Nobody knows what the goal is or what the endgame is. Cadet Bone Spurs is promising several more weeks of this and won’t rule out deploying American troops on the ground.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-strike-comments-nuclear-threat-b2930372.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=personalized-push