We will debate for years whether the midterms would have been different if Trump had waited to act in Iran, but I think acting was inevitable. A nuclear weapons program, nuclear weapons-grade material, and advancing missile technology that can now reach nearly all of Europe.
If there’s nuclear drone tech we don’t know about?
We weren’t in the White House or the Situation Room and never got the briefings, but I’d like to think it was serious enough that Trump would flip-flop on the no-new-wars promise.
We’ll also have to wait and see whether the situation was desperate enough that the risk of getting wiped out in 2026 was worth it. You have to wonder, but maybe this helps.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, said it is “increasingly concerned” about a nuclear facility in Iran that it has not been allowed to inspect.
The day before Israel began attacking Iran’s nuclear sites last June, Tehran informed the IAEA of plans to set up the uranium enrichment facility in the city of Isfahan, the BBC reported. The U.S. joined the strikes later that month.
Sounds like a trigger, and if the UN doesn’t know where it is, did anyone else? Was the new facility a target, or a head fake, and did it trigger a war Iran wanted? Lots of questions, but Iran is sneaky, has hundreds of miles of underground military missile infrastructure, and was hell-bent on getting nuclear weapons. We have to assume there was nuclear weapons infrastructure on a similar scale, or at least that they were attempting it.
The nuclear complex at Isfahan suffered extensive damage from the U.S. and Israeli sites, but the condition of the underground facilities isn’t known.
“The Agency’s lack of information about [Iran’s] nuclear material and access to facilities to verify it is a matter of serious proliferation concern . . .and needs to be rectified with the utmost urgency,” the IAEA said in the latest report.
The UN watchdog doesn’t know, and Iran isn’t sharing.
But this is Iran.
They may have nothing, or something they need to hide, or nothing to hide; they just want everyone to wonder and worry.
