The $64 question isn't whether Iran can build a bomb but if they want to use it. The Iranian leadership are religious fanatics, but they're also very methodical. They know using a nuke would result in retaliation.
IIRC, all enriched uranium has distinct markers indicating origin. If they give one to ISIS to nuke Tel Aviv, the Israelis would know who gave it to them.
The $64 question isn't whether Iran can build a bomb but if they want to use it. The Iranian leadership are religious fanatics, but they're also very methodical. They know using a nuke would result in retaliation.
IIRC, all enriched uranium has distinct markers indicating origin. If they give one to ISIS to nuke Tel Aviv, the Israelis would know who gave it to them.
Right now would be a good time for America and Iran to put some old feelings in the past and have some peace talks and negotiate a new treaty.
US sanctions has crippled Iran to a point that many 1,000's of innocent Iranians die each year through starvation and lack of having proper medicines and Medical technologies in place to properly keep their people healthy.
The US position is and has been, WE DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS.
Of Course Trump did not use that philosophy and Negotiated an end to the Afghanistan war with the Taliban, so that ship has already sailed.
But to completely refuse to have a protocol between our two nations and not even have talks is certainly not got us anywhere with Iran.
And because of this, who is supplying Russia with weapons now, that only helps them keep their war alive in the Ukraine? Iran of course.
So, there are enough bargaining chips now that both Iran and the US have, and a nuclear capability is certainly the BIG one for Iran, and the US has the Sanctions, now in place, is the Big one for the US to use in negotiating a new Peace Agreement.
We cannot continue a Hatfield and McCoy cold war with Iran anymore, because we are just biting off our nose to spite our own face now, and we are spending billions of dollars helping Ukraine defend itself from Iranian weapons being used in Putin's war. That's like burning money, in a way.
And now is the time to negotiate, while Biden is in the Oval Office. Because I'm sure we do not want a reckless Putin-friendly Trump-like Republican president negotiating a new peace deal with Iran, as Russia would certainly come out the winner in a Trump-like negotiation with Iran. And not only that, Trump eased sanctions with Russia, without getting anything out of that for the United States, but just to protect his business interests in Russia. AND LET'S NOT FORGET, TRUMP IS THE ONE NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR IRAN'S NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES BECAUSE HE ENDED THE IRAN DEAL, and put nothing back in place to prevent the Iranian Nuclear buildup thgat the world faces today.
Trump did nothing but feather his own bed through his World Policies, either by using his policies to make himself and his family richer with the Arabs, or used his policy to help himself win elections by bribing other countries like the Ukraine to dig for dirt on Biden etc. Or even in-your-face policies intended to piss off the Muslims like negotiating the deal that led to Israel moving their capitol to Jerusalem.
Trump or one of his wannabe TRUMPtarded replacements negotiating with Iran would be like two Crime families joining ranks and working together for territorial gains and gains of self-interest. So long as Trumptards are the leaders of the Republicans, they cannot be trusted with world policy right now.
NO WE DON'T WANT THAT- so the time to act is now!