{"id":15239,"date":"2022-11-27T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:29:39","slug":"tehran-dangles-the-samson-option-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/27\/tehran-dangles-the-samson-option-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran Dangles the Samson Option Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"483\" class=\"wp-image-15243\" src=\"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/5117zqHVHXL._AC_SY780_.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/5117zqHVHXL._AC_SY780_.jpg 310w, https:\/\/egretnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/5117zqHVHXL._AC_SY780_-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran&#8217;s ruling mullahs have effectively announced that they intend to speed up uranium enrichment to 90%, which would give them the material needed for producing nuclear weapons. As on the eight previous occasions when this trick was used, Tehran&#8217;s message is addressed to Western powers, notably the United States: resume the nuclear talks or else!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like a one-trick pony, Iran&#8217;s ruling mullahs have played unpredictable so often that they have become predictable in their unpredictability.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facing a nationwide uprising that seems to continue despite massive repression and shaken by the International Atomic Energy Agency&#8217;s unexpectedly tough stance on the never-ending nuclear dispute, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered fresh use of an old recipe, which has two ingredients.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first ingredient is an announcement that the Islamic Republic has started enriching uranium UF6 up to 60% instead of the 3.67% allowed under the moribund Obama &#8220;nuclear deal&#8221;. This means that the mullahs intend to speed up enrichment to 90%, which would give them the material needed for producing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new enrichment program is taking place in the Fordo nuclear center which, built deep underground, is supposed to be immune from possible air strikes.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s ruling mullahs have effectively announced that they intend to speed up uranium enrichment to 90%, which would give them the material needed for producing nuclear weapons. As on the eight previous occasions when this trick was used, Tehran&#8217;s message is addressed to Western powers, notably the United States: resume the nuclear talks or else!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intel","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15265,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions\/15265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}