June 26, 2025
Did Iran Move the Uranium?
Timothy Birdnow
Did Iran move four hundred pounds of enriched uranium before the airstrikes? There is evidence they did.
The London Telegraph dishes:
And as long as there is anything left of the nuclear program Iran will continue to work towards a bomb; more than ever the possession of one seems necessary to them. And the use.
If they have this much uranium at 60% they just need one centrifuge to enrich it all the way to 95%. It would only take about two weeks to finish the enrichment provided they have a working centrifuge.
There are other options; Iran could smuggle the uranium to, say, North Korea to have them finish the processing. Or Pakistan.
Granted, giving partially enriched uranium away is a dangerous game as larceny is a distinct possibility by the recipient but it is still an option.
While I suspect this is just a way for the media to try to blunt Trump's victory here, there may be some truth to it. It STILL buys us time at a minimum. And it may not be true at all. One would hope so.
Did Iran move four hundred pounds of enriched uranium before the airstrikes? There is evidence they did.
The London Telegraph dishes:
However, doubt has been cast on Mr Trump’s claims after senior US officials admitted they did not know the fate of Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium stockpile.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday that extensive damage was expected to have occurred at the Fordow, but added that his agency was seeking access to "account for” Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles.
Two Israeli officials with knowledge of the intelligence told The New York Times that Iran had transferred equipment and uranium outside Fordow in recent days.
There was also evidence to suggest Iran had moved its 400kg stockpile of 60 per cent enriched uranium, which had been stored inside Isfahan, to a secret location.
JD Vance, the US vice president, hinted that the material had been moved at the 11th hour on Sunday. "We’re going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel,” he told ABC News.
Mr Grossi said the fuel had last been seen by UN inspectors a week before Israel began its attacks on Iran on June 13.
According to satellite imagery, trucks, bulldozers and security convoys appeared to swarm the Fordow facility two days before the US strikes. Analysts at TS2 Space, a Polish defence firm, suggested it revealed a "frantic effort” to move centrifuges or shielding materials.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday that extensive damage was expected to have occurred at the Fordow, but added that his agency was seeking access to "account for” Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles.
Two Israeli officials with knowledge of the intelligence told The New York Times that Iran had transferred equipment and uranium outside Fordow in recent days.
There was also evidence to suggest Iran had moved its 400kg stockpile of 60 per cent enriched uranium, which had been stored inside Isfahan, to a secret location.
JD Vance, the US vice president, hinted that the material had been moved at the 11th hour on Sunday. "We’re going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel,” he told ABC News.
Mr Grossi said the fuel had last been seen by UN inspectors a week before Israel began its attacks on Iran on June 13.
According to satellite imagery, trucks, bulldozers and security convoys appeared to swarm the Fordow facility two days before the US strikes. Analysts at TS2 Space, a Polish defence firm, suggested it revealed a "frantic effort” to move centrifuges or shielding materials.
And as long as there is anything left of the nuclear program Iran will continue to work towards a bomb; more than ever the possession of one seems necessary to them. And the use.
If they have this much uranium at 60% they just need one centrifuge to enrich it all the way to 95%. It would only take about two weeks to finish the enrichment provided they have a working centrifuge.
There are other options; Iran could smuggle the uranium to, say, North Korea to have them finish the processing. Or Pakistan.
Granted, giving partially enriched uranium away is a dangerous game as larceny is a distinct possibility by the recipient but it is still an option.
While I suspect this is just a way for the media to try to blunt Trump's victory here, there may be some truth to it. It STILL buys us time at a minimum. And it may not be true at all. One would hope so.
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Hell, no, Iran didn't move the uranium! The idiots who are suggesting that are just that: idiots. For one thing, you can't move uranium by itself; you'd have to move all the ancillary equipment along with it. And it's not as if the uranium is sitting out there, like Joe Biden in his beach chair -- it's way down underground sequestered.
C'mon, man!
C'mon, man!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at June 26, 2025 11:45 PM (X5D0l)
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