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The initial nuclear agreement that Trump tore up was a good starting point
US just kept insisting on 0% enrichment.
It was the only other nuclear armed country of the Middle East crying wolf, which they have since decades before I was born.
Japan has the rockets, the material, and the know how. They’re sometimes described as a screwdriver turn away from a bomb.
> The IAEA report raised a stern warning, saying that Iran is now “the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material” — something the agency said was of “serious concern.”
> The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency — which was seen by The Associated Press — says that as of May 17, Iran has amassed 408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%.
> U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has “undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so.”
https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-iaea-uranium-7f6c996...
> "The Board of Governors... finds that Iran's many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran ... constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency," the text said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...
Anyway, there's a difference between having enough enriched uranium for a bomb, and actually making that uranium into a bomb. But it's not that big of a difference, it's not like enriching uranium to weapons-grade isn't bad.
Indeed, to venture off-topic, Israel has sought nuclear weapons for as long as it has existed, which one might plausibly construe as further evidence that their state was knowingly and willingly established by military force, without much pretense that it could ever persist otherwise.
> I ask mainly to be convinced one way or another.
"Let Iran do whatever?" is not even close to a neutral perspective.
The intent is not clear. You come across as lying about neutrality.
Or learn how to not write non-leading questions.
Edit: Hey Hey editing all your posts doesn't make you look more sincere, that's just being more antagonistic.
They’ve said they’re not making weapons.
Trump pulled us out of a deal where we lifted sanctions in order to ensure there were no weapons.
This is embarrassing and outright illegal.
I expect you to deny or water down most of my claims, so to spare a long flamewar, just assume i've given all the generic standard responses everyone here has seen 100 times. I agree with most of them.
But what business is it of Iran whether or not israel exists? They don't seem to care about palestinians too much otherwise they wouldn't be supporting hamas and the war they started.
It's a genocidal regime, despised by most of her citizens. They fund proxy wars across the middle east based on religious extremism. They deserve everything they are getting and with all due respect only an idiot would support them.