There is no nuclear weapons program.

[Ponietz]

3. Just a cache of near-weapons grade enriched uranium expanded by 50% in the last 3 months--enough for 10 bombs

It’s disingenuous to say Iran doesn’t have a “program”. True, they hadn’t yet assembled a nuke, but they’re making the essential component.

But, a meme is more interesting, and fuck the truth if my talking point furthers my political aims.

What the IAEA found:

https://www.cfr.org/article/what-are-irans-nuclear-and-missile-capabilities

Urgency surrounding the talks ramped up in May, however, when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report stating that Iran’s cache of near-weapons grade enriched uranium had surged by about 50 percent in the prior three months. The surge puts Iran a step away from having enough enriched uranium for ten nuclear weapons, the IAEA found. Iran maintains its enrichment program is peaceful.

The IAEA, meanwhile, has also said that Iran continues to be “less than satisfactory” in “a number of respects” regarding its nuclear cooperation. “But one thing is certain,” Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear body, said. “The [Iranian] programme runs wide and deep.”