The Iran Negotiations

As I write this, the latest round of US-Iranian talks has come to an end in Oman without any apparent conclusions. The Iranians have said that the US wants to continue talking, but the US side — so far — has said nothing.

That in itself is telling. Had they actually come to an agreement , I think we would know it.

Over the past week, satellite photographs have emerged on social media showing that the Iranians have put new roofs on buildings at Fordo.

The roofs may be just temporary covers, aimed primarily at keeping prying eyes (and satellites) from chronicling the excavation work underneath.

Still, it would take many months for the Iranians to burrow down the 300 feet of ruble caused by the bombs. And once they reached the underground enrichment hall, it’s unlikely they would find anything other than twisted metal.

So my guess is that the apparent excavation work at Fordo is just a mirage.

Instead, I believe the U.S. now has definitive intelligence that the regime succeeded in spiriting away its stockpile of highly-enriched uranium shortly before the June 22 attack on Fordo.

Remember how quick both the president and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth were to brush off questions relating to the HEU stockpile? And then how quickly the subject just seemed to vanish from the airwaves and the press briefings?

The 450 kg of 60% HEU Iran was known to possess before the June attacks is enough to produce at least ten nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s own assessment.  That is not just a one-off bomb, but a nuclear weapons arsenal.

My Iranian sources believe the regime removed it long before the June attacks and is keeping it in a convoy of nearly two dozen container trucks where it can be further enriched — a kind of rolling shell game, if you will.

That would make a tempting target for Pentagon war-planners, who have shown remarkable expertise at spiriting away highly-protected targets — including a foreign president — from very hostile environments.

It would certainly explain why the regime has been putting pressure on US allies in the region in recent days, with the Supreme Leader warning that any US attack would spark a “regional war.”

I am guessing that Steve Witcoff and Jared Kushner want to brief the president in person before he says anything further. Sure, he has been saying that he prefers diplomacy to war. But this president also has a very low tolerance for the lies and nonsense the Iranians are so good at putting out.

And then, there is the issue of the protesters. According to the Iranians, that was not even on the agenda of the Oman talks. And yet, it is uppermost in the president’s mind, if we believe a recent letter he sent to an Iranian-American whose nephew was gunned down on Jan 10 by regime thugs.

The President reportedly wrote that his administration “will always stand with the people of Iran in their demand for freedom and democracy.” He added: “We are working with great determination to ensure that the Ayatollah and his criminal regime are brought to justice.”

Those are serious words that go well beyond official statements so far. And beyond anything the Iranians have hinted they discussed with Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Oman.

I discuss this, as well as the latest purges by Chinese president Xi of top generals who opposed his planned invasion of Taiwan, and the latest Euro-nonsense over Ukraine and Putin, in this week’s Prophedy Today Weekend.

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Yours in freedom.

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