Sometimes, diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie, nice doggie” until you can find a rock. President Trump seems to have a knack for this, as does Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and some of the things they have achieved so far are nothing short of remarkable. One reason for that is that the president and his administration have sent a clear message to all that would inflict harm on America or the American people that they aren’t playing around, unlike some fundamentally non-serious previous administrations.
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On Friday, the president picked up a rock in his left hand and handed Iran a proposal for a new nuclear deal with his right.
President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. has given Iran a proposal for a nuclear deal.
“Yeah they have a proposal, but more importantly, they know they have to move quickly or something bad, something bad is going to happen,” Trump said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned this week that the United States is facing a critical moment with Iran to curb its efforts to develop a nuclear weapon and limit its uranium enrichment.
U.S. and Iranian officials have held four rounds of talks, primarily in Oman, since Trump took office to address Tehran’s nuclear program.
There are as yet no details as to what’s on offer, but we can assume there are both carrot and stick elements, and it’s a safe bet that there won’t be any late-night deliveries into Tehran of pallets loaded with American currency.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which is charged with monitoring these things, informs us that Iran is startlingly close to developing a weapon.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, often referred to as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, noted in a March report that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium had alarmingly grown from 182 kg to 275 kg, approximately 401 pounds to 606 pounds, in early 2025.
“Once you’re at 60, you’re 90% of the way there. You are, in essence, a threshold nuclear weapons state, which is what Iran basically has become,” Rubio said Thursday on “Hannity”.
“They are at the threshold of a nuclear weapon. If they decided to do so, they could do so very quickly. If they stockpile enough of that 60 percent enriched, they could very quickly turn it into 90 and weaponize it. That’s the danger we face right now. That’s the urgency here,” he said.
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Here’s the thing, and I’m going to tell you: “Weaponizing” a nuclear device is generally used to mean putting it in an air-droppable bomb or making it fit on a missile. Iran doesn’t have to do that, and Secretary Rubio, the president and the Pentagon certainly know this. All they have to do is assemble a device that goes “boom” when torched off, load it into an old tramp freighter with a skeleton suicide crew – these kinds of useful idiots are common enough in that part of the world – sail it into a darkened harbor some night and set it off. The target might be Haifa or Tel Aviv, or it might be New York.
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Whatever deal is struck, there is one thing we can rely on utterly, as long as Iran’s current theocracy is in place: Whatever they agree to, they will lie about it. If they offer to stop enriching uranium, they will just try to move their enrichment facilities out of sight. If they agree to stop trying to produce a bomb, they will keep trying, but their efforts will be moved to some cave in the Alborz Mountains. Whatever they agree to, they will harbor no notions of actually keeping the agreement.
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That’s what they have done since 1979. That’s what they always will do, as long as the mullahs are running Iran.
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