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Israel Launches strike against Irans Nuclear Programme

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,619 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Yeah, peace talks with any of the CRINKs group is a complete waste of time IMHO.

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    Help us in helping Ukraine.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭pureza


    Correct,if you have nukes,you’re fairly safe assuming you are responsible with them

    Question is,do we trust a country whose leadership declares the likes of you and me as an infidel and whose global aim is to convert the lot of us into a system of living that compared to our society woul be a prisonous hell?

    That’s a powerful driver here in a search for a way ahead



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    You’ve asked the same question five times and ignored the answer every time. So here it is again, clearly:

    Iran doesn’t “need” 60% enrichment for peaceful purposes. That’s not the point.

    They’re doing it as political leverage — a response to the U.S. breaking the JCPOA and reimposing sanctions. The goal is to pressure the West back to the table.

    And again: 60% isn’t weapons-grade (that’s 90%+), and the IAEA is still monitoring it. You even quoted the stockpile figures yourself so you clearly trust the source.

    If you’re arguing that 60% = intent to build a bomb, then make that case, but don’t pretend asking the same rhetorical question over and over counts as proof. It doesn’t.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    Iran in its current state definitely no nukes.

    There is always a concern with unstable regimes and nukes but once they have them its difficult to get rid of them. hence the B2 raid



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    Ahh come on … At least try to pull your head out of the sand



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,627 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    All the talk now about getting Iran back to the negotiation table etc... I think the more pressing issue is where the 400kgs of enriched uranium went.

    I can just imagine if Iran comes back to the table and asked where the uranium is, they just point to Fordow and say it's buried in the rubble.

    Good luck trying to account for it all.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,280 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    It’s a bad day for the US. The country that has generally acted as an international mediator and a voice of reason in cases like this has now become an untrustworthy negotiator and a schoolyard bully. It’s a terrible look that Israel is now calling the shots in US foreign policy. Trump and his cronies are a joke. Looking like being in Putkn’s back pocket was bad enough but the last thing any country should be doing now is believing Trump when he says he wants to talk. More fool you if you believe him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    So we’ve moved from “they’re enriching uranium” to “there too unstable to be trusted with any nuclear capacity at all”, even under inspection and within a framework they were complying with until the U.S. backed out.

    That’s the crux of it, isn’t it? Not legality, not IAEA oversight, not even the NPT — just a belief that this country, unlike others with actual bombs, can’t be trusted at all.

    Fine. But let’s not pretend it’s about enrichment levels anymore. It’s about deciding who’s allowed to play the game and who gets bombed for sitting at the table.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    What other use is there for 60% plus enriched Uranium other than weapons ?

    It is the point …. all those centrifuges are not needed for nuclear power plants etc

    Give me one reason … just one



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    That’s the difference between us. I’m talking facts, frameworks, and oversight; you’re throwing slogans and hoping nobody notices the lack of an argument.

    You haven’t addressed anything I’ve actually said, not the JCPOA, not the IAEA inspections, not the legal distinction between enrichment and weaponisation, and definitely not the hypocrisy of Israel bombing a monitored NPT signatory while holding undeclared nukes itself.

    If “pull your head out of the sand” is all you’ve got left, I’ll take it as a concession.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,020 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
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    Were you on a different planet for the rest of this century?

    The United States has been picking off middle Eastern countries since 9/11.

    Iran was the last domino left untoppled in the PNAC playbook, this has been on the cards since the times when Donald Trump was funding Democratic election campaigns. It goes beyond Trump and speaks to American foreign policy as it really is, aggressive hawkish and bent on dominance.

    John Bolton must have creamed himself when he heard about the bombing run yesterday, and he's always p1ssing and moaning about Trump.

    There's more to life than Donald Trump and American aggression against Iran isn't something he dreamt up all by himself.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    You want one reason?

    Because the U.S. pulled out of the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions. Iran responded by ramping up enrichment as a bargaining chip, not for power plants, not (yet) for weapons, but for leverage.

    You don’t have to like it, but that is the reason.

    And again — the IAEA is watching it. The material is declared. If this were a weapons program in disguise, we wouldn't have detailed enrichment breakdown like you posted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    There are zero reasons to enrich above 5% a reactor would use

    Once again these CRINKs group of ****hole countries want it both ways

    The want a world without rules and treaties and yet they are moaning about treaties not being applied to non members

    Speaking of rules and treaties, those were thoroughly trampled upon on 24th Feb 2022 and 7th Oct 2023 it’s a bit rich to be complaining about rules now by those who got what they wanted, a world where might means right



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,415 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    So it is not a principle thing at all with you, it is about judgement. You trust Israel trying to have nuclear weapons, many people do not so you cannot have non-proliferation where there are those threats. Either it applies to all or it applies to none, anything in between is your own belief system in play.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    You’re not actually challenging anything I said, just repeating “no reason above 5%” (which I already acknowledged) and throwing in a few global dates and insults like they prove something.

    Iran was complying with JCPOA , below 5%, full inspections until the U.S. tore the deal up. Their ramp-up happened after that. It wasn’t ideal, but it was predictable.

    If you’re going to talk about “rules being trampled,” at least start with the ones that were working and who walked away from them first. That’s where this started.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭batman75


    I think even Mileikowsky is conceding that the bombing by America in Iran didn't not have the desired effect. The fact that Israel is not permitting access to their cities for journalists tell me the devastation in is big. The people are spending more and more time in bunkers. Hard to see how Israel recovers economically.

    Diplomatically their fooked. They are the number 1 pariah state in the world. The U.S. is working hard to join them in second place. They are no longer seen as good faith participants in negotiations.

    Ultimately we need the genocide in Gaza to stop. We need to see the ethno supremacist regime in Israel ended.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    2022

    The UN report in December highlighted that no progress had been made on the implementation of the 2015 Security Council resolution, with Iran still enriching "worrying quantities" of uranium. The IAEA reported that Iran intended to install new centrifuges at one of its fuel enrichment plants, whilst also enriching uranium up to 60% at another plant. It believed that the country then had a total enriched uranium stockpile of more than 18 times the allowable amount under the JCPOA and that its ability to effectively monitor the country's nuclear facilities was compromised.

    On 12 June 2025 the IAEA's board of governors formally declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years.

    Thats the crux



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,415 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    So the current Israeli regime is not unstable to you?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,395 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Very impressive speech from Pakistan. The Somalia representative was equally impressive too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    You’re quoting a June 2025 breach report after the whole deal collapsed. That’s not the crux, that’s the consequence.

    Iran were complying with JCPOA until the U.S. pulled out and slapped sanctions back on. What exactly did people expect to happen after that, flowers and thank you cards? Of course they ramped things up.

    None of this happened in a vacuum, and pretending it did is just rewriting history to suit the narrative. If you actually want de-escalation, you go back to the thing that was working not keep moving the goalposts until bombing looks like the only option.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    When it comes to using nukes no… look at Iran as a prime example



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭pureza


    Israel are believed to have Nukes they’ve proliferated there

    That’s not relevant to other mad countries not having them yet being stopped

    There’s principle in that objective



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,201 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Iran's first port of call is Moscow tomorrow, it was Russia, and Russians in Fordow , Russia was teaching them everything they wanted to know. Makes one question, is Trump really a Putin Muppet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,415 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Who believes it, what measures have Israel agreed to stop gaining nuclear weapons?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,517 ✭✭✭thatsdaft


    Trump tore it up because he’s a nutcase

    It still gives no reason for Iran to enrich uranium

    The dictators of these counties wanted a dog eat dog world, well it’s a bit rich to be complaining when another dog is gnawing their foot off



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,415 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    So carrying our genocide is not an indication of a regime being unstable… according to your belief system?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    Why would Iran need to ramp things up if their goal was nuclear power for peace purposes only?

    Iran was enriching worrying amounts of Uranium since 2015

    2014

    Iran agreed with the IAEA on safeguard measures for the IR-40 heavy water reactor at Arak and pledged to finalize these by August.
    In September, the IAEA reported that Iran was not meeting its obligations under the Framework.

    The US pulled out in 2018



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭weisses


    I dont have a belief system.

    Israel is perfectly capable of committing genocide with conventional weapons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭Derkaiser93


    I hate Trump and Netanyahu but I'm all for preventing a regime having nukes that's consistently been at war and illegally invaded and bombed other nations in the middle east for decades, killed millions and is now lead by a lunatic far right autocrat, oh wait that's the US.

    Sorry I mean I'm all for preventing a country having nukes that invaded nearly every country in the world including Ireland, oh wait sorry that's Britain...let me go again, I'm all for preventing a nation that's been at war with every middle east nation, has attacked 4 of them in the last year and is currently committing genocide on live TV, from having nukes...oh wait sorry that's Israel.

    Yeah Iran are the axis of evil in the world. Let's go after them guys.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Are you just copy-pasting bits from random articles at this point? Genuinely not sure what you’re trying to argue anymore, it reads like a mash-up of headlines and IAEA footnotes with no clear point.

    If you’re saying Iran was enriching “worrying amounts” since 2015, then why cite a 2014 report — from before the JCPOA even existed?

    It’s hard to respond when the post itself feels like it doesn’t know what it’s saying.



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