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Sqrt

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Oct 26, 2017
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Iran has resumed the production of 20% enriched uranium at its underground nuclear facility in Fordow, an Iranian government spokesman said Monday. Iranian state media later reported that authorities had seized a South Korean-flagged tanker and arrested its crew, alleging "oil pollution" in the Persian Gulf.

The big picture: The news comes amid heightened U.S. fears of a possible Iranian attack, one year after the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. 20% enriched uranium — which is banned under the 2015 nuclear deal — can't be used for military purposes, but is a step closer to the 90% enrichment needed to build a nuclear bomb.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the move is a violation of Iran's nuclear commitments and proof that Iran wants to continue its military nuclear program. "Israel will not allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said.

www.axios.com

Iran resumes 20% uranium enrichment, seizes South Korean tanker

The announcement come less than three weeks before Biden assumes office.
 

Kinthey

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
22,335
A bit curious that this happens now, right before Biden will likely want to reenter the agreement.
 

Dis

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Oct 27, 2017
5,953
Hahahaha netanyahu can get fucked with that comment, if you didn't keep pushing for the usa and trump to get rid of the fucking deal you're now complaining they aren't following then they wouldn't be doing this, maybe next time you and the GOP idiot in the white house should think long term before you start making moves to destroy deals that were being honoured and before assassinating military leaders and lead scientists of a foreign nation, or pushing for sanctions to be put back in place on the country who was doing the right thing before you fucked with them again, assholes. I swear the amount of damage this world has suffered because of the usa is insane, I honestly wish that the rest of the world would unite to form an alliance against the usa just to force it to cut this shit out but sadly it would never happen.

As it stands all trump proved during the last 4 years to Iran was that the only way the usa will leave you the fuck alone is if you have nukes and can tell them to fuck off or you'll use them, it's insane that any country would have to go that far and create weapons no one should have just so that the usa will stay the fuck out of their business and stop trying to fuck with them.
 

shinobi602

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Oct 24, 2017
8,366
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the move is a violation of Iran's nuclear commitments and proof that Iran wants to continue its military nuclear program.

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TheOMan

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
7,122
A bit curious that this happens now, right before Biden will likely want to reenter the agreement.

Agreed - but would you trust the US government in any shape or form to honour any new agreement after the last four years? The current criminal President is committing sedition with absolutely no consequence.
 

Kolx

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,505
They seized a SK tonker? why? this seems like a stupid move at this time. Do they really want to give rump a reason to fuck the region up?
 

Dis

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,953
Agreed - but would you trust the US government in any shape or form to honour any new agreement after the last four years? The current criminal President is committing sedition with absolutely no consequence.

Exactly, the whole reason that Iran wants nukes, despite what the usa government or media will tell you, isn't to actually use them to attack the usa, it's because if they have nukes then the threat alone of their possible use will make America and Israel finally leave Iran the fuck alone for the most part. It's really fucking annoying that the usa fucks with countries non stop just because they don't want to be the usa's little puppet nations, if the usa hadn't fucked around with Iran when they democratically elected someone that the usa didn't like then we wouldn't be here today, but the usa has continued to fuck with them non stop, and even when Iran finally makes a deal to not make nukes under the idea that the usa will mostly leave them the fuck alone, the very next GOP moron comes in and destroys the whole thing, trump did nothing but prove to Iran, North Korea or anywhere else that you can't expect the usa to live up to their end of any possible deal because the next guy who comes in can fuck it up again instantly, so your only option is to create some nukes and tell the usa to back the fuck off, which again is a sad state of affairs and not the way the world should be going forward but the usa has never done anything for the betterment of the world and always for their own needs.
 

teseR

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
242
Yo, fuck Trump and fuck Netanyahu. Iran was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Hey guys, we're following the agreement, we cool? Oh, you're following the agreement? Fuck you and the agreement.
 

Baji Boxer

Chicken Chaser
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Oct 27, 2017
11,380
Could be because South Korea has billions in debt to Iran they're not paying due to the US sanctions.
Still, should at least give the crew back. Unless they're ransoming them?

On the uranium, 20% still doesn't seem that close to the 90% it says they need for a nuke. Is it really enough to worry about? (I honestly don't know).
 

SemRockwel

Member
Oct 27, 2017
507
Welp, you can thank Trump and the republican party for this. Trump ineptness is better for foreign policy my ass.
 

Cation

The Fallen
Oct 28, 2017
3,603
This is all on Israel. They brought this all on. Now their GOP overlords are falling and they are grasping for straws.

Netanyahu was just looking for brownie points and furthering his agenda. He had to know this would happen as the result of teaming with Team Orange
 

dhlt25

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Oct 27, 2017
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it's their only play tbh, they are getting squeeze from all sides and diplomatic approach obviously doesn't work with the US and Israel negotiating in bad faith. Just look at north korea, once they got nukes, everyone has to cozy up to them. Not saying nuke is good but it's their only play
 

Mulligan

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Oct 29, 2017
1,505
Iran has never been close to developing a nuclear weapon. Every independent investigation has found that Iran has been enriching uranium for civilian purposes.
 

SneerfulOwl

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Nov 4, 2017
1,873
Could be because South Korea has billions in debt to Iran they're not paying due to the US sanctions.
They froze the asset because Trump put Iran on sanction. Not because they didn't want to pay but because the assets are frozen in the bank. Any sanctioned nations has their bank oversea assets frozen, especially countries that has strong ties with the US. Plus, Iran is bartering to return the tanker and the crew for the Covid vaccine and material goods that are worth 8.5 billion from South Korea now.
 

KimiNewt

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Oct 27, 2017
1,749
Just cuz something is bad for Israel/The current US government doesn't mean it's good. More nuclear weapons is never a positive.

Supporting proliferation to own the GOP.