Iranian state media: ‘No choice but to obtain the atomic bomb’

The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter)

BREAKING: Iranian state media says it has now “no choice but to obtain the atomic bomb” to remove “the military option for the occupation and partitioning of Iran” from the table, arguing Iran must “absolutely reach nuclear deterrence” before current negotiations can be conducted “from a correct position,” per Fars.

Iran adds the acquisition is not only driven by negotiation leverage but also by Trump’s two recent nuclear threats against Iran, including his April warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” and his May threat of “one big glow coming out of Iran.”

This is also among the most direct nuclear weapons advocacy published on Iranian state media to date.

They’ve been working toward it all along. Otherwise they never would have enriched uranium to just below weapons-grade level, far beyond what is needed for any civilian purpose. Nevertheless, they lied to the U.S. and the IAEA for years about a nonexistent fatwa from the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei forbidding nuclear weapons, and now they’re trying to frighten Trump into making yet more concessions and sealing his surrender. They would never be talking this way if they weren’t emboldened, and Trump, with his jaw-dropping concessions and endless drawing of meaningless red lines, is the one who has emboldened them.

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