Iran's Mullahs Score Nuclear Victory

Iran’s Mullahs Score Nuclear Victory

Majid Rafizadeh

The Biden Administration is sitting idly by while Iran’s ruling mullahs continue to advance their nuclear program.

For almost a year and half, the P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia and China, plus Germany) have held fruitless negotiations with Iran, all while the Islamic Republic’s theocratic establishment has clearly succeeded at speeding up its nuclear program by increasing its uranium enrichment from 20% to 60%, conducting uranium metal production, and adding additional advanced centrifuges. After agreeing to extend the monitoring mechanism of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by reinstalling surveillance cameras a year ago, Iran then announced that it would not allow the IAEA to see images from the devices.

Most importantly, the IAEA announced last month that Iran now has enough enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb.

The Iranian regime is also refusing to answer the IAEA’s questions about uranium particles found at three clandestine and undeclared nuclear sites in Iran. The IAEA stated:

“Iran has not provided explanations that are technically credible in relation to the Agency’s findings at those locations…The Agency remains ready to engage without delay with Iran to resolve all of these matters.”

Nevertheless, the Biden administration has yet to take any tangible action to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state in spite of these critical reports, and even though a joint statement issued by the UK, France and Germany acknowledged that “Iran has no credible civilian need for uranium metal R&D and production, which are a key step in the development of a nuclear weapon.”

The Biden administration would do well to understand that if the Islamic Republic becomes a nuclear state, there is the dangerous likelihood of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of Iran’s proxies and terrorist militias, or that the Iranian regime will share its nuclear technology with these groups, not to mention the nuclear arms race that will take off in the region.

The Iranian regime has also been setting up weapons factories abroad, and manufacturing ballistic missiles and weapons — include precision-guided missiles with advanced technology — to strike specific targets in other countries, including in Syria. The latest UN Security Council “Panel of Experts on Yemen” report revealed this year that Yemen’s Houthis have been receiving significant amount of weapons from the Iranian regime:

The Iranian regime has frequently threatened to “wipe” a whole country — Israel — meaning: wipe out or wipe off. General Hossein Salami, the chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made the regime’s plans vehemently clear: “Our strategy is to erase Israel from the global political map,” he stated on Iran’s state-controlled Channel 2 TV in 2019.

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