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Iran will probably soon have nuclear weapons because of Trump.

23 June 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Until Trump bombed Iran on the early morning of June 22nd Iran time (June 21st in America), despite his appointed Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard — head of all 17 U.S. Intelligence Agencies — telling him and Congress that “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003” (to which Trump publicly replied “I don’t care what she said”), it is now all but certain that Iran will change its policy on having nuclear weapons — Khamenei (or whomever will replace him if Israel succeeds in assassinating him) is almost certain to change Iran’s policy on that and obtain nuclear weapons. Here is why he almost certainly will, and how he almost certainly will.

On June 22nd, America’s UPI News Agency and Yahoo News headlined “Russia: Other nations ready to supply Iran with nukes after U.S. strike”, and this means that Iran will be able to have nuclear weapons whenever it wants, which will probably be fairly soon, unless Khamenei would prefer to be treated the way that Libya’s Gaddafi was treated in 2011 — blitz-invaded and destroyed by the aggressive lie-and-war-mongering U.S. coalition (which includes Israel). 

Iran, in other words, probably now is aware that the U.S. Government is that evil. If they aren’t yet aware, then America will probably just continue bombing Iran until Israel’s Government is satisfied (which would be the surrender and capitulation of Iran to its enemies).

That news-report at Yahoo received over ten thousand reader-comments, and they showed that the vast majority of its readers there seemed happy that Trump had done this, and a representative one of them was "We come from a family who set foot in America in 1607, with 2 ancestors signators to the Declaration of Independence and one to the Articles of Confederation. … When there are those who specifically call out for our destruction we must be prepared, willing, and able to do whatever must be done.” Another was “So now it's on the table. Russia wants Iran to have nuclear weapons. Does that mean that we should give nuclear weapons to Ukraine? Sure does seem like an equivalent response. Russia really ought to rethink that one.” A minority disagreed, such as “In case you missed it. Nutenyahoo, one of tRump’s many puppet masters, ordered the USA to attack Iran which has done nothing wrong. You didn’t learn anything from any history.”

Who is actually endangering America? Does Khamenei? No. Does Putin? He could if he wanted to, but he never has had nor expressed any such intention, and has instead only done whatever he must do in order to prevent the world’s hyper-aggressive nation, America, from becoming able to position its nuclear missiles within a mere five minutes of blitz-annihilating Russia’s central command, from its nearest-of-all-neighbors, which is Ukraine a mere 300 miles away from Moscow. After America seized Ukraine in a bloody U.S. February 2014 coup its propagandists called a ‘Revolution of Dignity’, Putin finally knew how evil America and its empire are, and responded as he needed to respond, to that ever-increasing danger to his nation (which is the reason why the reader who said “we should give nuclear weapons to Ukraine” was merely assuming the opposite, which is the U.S.-and-allied ‘history’). Americans are deceived to the contrary by their regime, but this is the fact: America caused the war in Ukraine. Russia did not. This fact of history is constantly lied-about in the ‘news’-media in the U.S. and its colonies (including, of course, post-February-2014 Ukraine), but it IS the history of that matter. Russia is not our enemy but ever since 25 July 1945, America has been Russia’s enemy — seeking “regime-change” there. It is just a fact of history. But it is hidden by all of the U.S. empire’s ‘news’-media so as to keep their public supportive of their regime. They do so by pretending that their internal enemies are the ‘opposite’ poliical Party: for Republicans, it is the Democrats who are deceived and considered the enemy; for Democrats, it is the Republicans who are deceived and who are considered the enemy — and this hides that it is America’s billionaires themselves who fund more than 50% of both Parties, who are the American people’s, and even the entire world’s, enemies, and who control the U.S. Government, BOTH of its two Parties. All of that is hidden, by their ‘news’-media (who ‘justify’ their Government even when they criticize the ‘opposite’ Party); so, we get comments such as those at Yahoo.

And now even Khamenei, who has resisted recognizing how evil the U.S. Government is, knows it too, if he has any intelligence other than the anciet Quran has provided him with.

And, if he DOES now know, then, (if that UPI article is true), one can reasonably infer that at least one of the existing nuclearly armed nations will likely send to Iran not merely enough highly enriched uranium to be able to make a nuclear bomb, but already-existing nuclear bombs, to defend itself against the world’s most evil Governments: America, Israel, UK, and Germany — which intend to take over the entire world (nominally for America, but also for themselves: for the U.S. empire).

When Tulsi Gabbard said “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” none of the 17 intelligence agencies that report to her issued any objection, or stated any qualifier to that opinion, either before or since she said it. Furthermore, the IAEA, which is the only outside entity that has been actually inside Iran’s nuclear facilities, said on June 17th that it too has seen no evidence that Iran is preparing to build a nuclear weapon. 

My Google search just now for the phrase “IAEA confirms Gabbard” produced at the top of its listings their “AI Overview” 

IAEA report and DNI assessment: A May 31, 2025, report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) indicated Iran's uranium stockpile was at a level approaching weapons-grade. While DNI Gabbard had previously stated that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, she has since clarified, stating that the situation has changed. The US intelligence community now assesses that Iran could potentially produce a nuclear weapon "within weeks to months".

But it links to no source for that. And Google had helped in June 2011 the Obama Administration to plan its operations to overthrow both Yanukovych in Ukraine and Assad in Syria. Furthermore, here is from the actual 31 May 2025 IAEA Board of Governors report “NPT Safeguards Agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran” said in is its “Overall Assessment” on page 18, directly contradicting the Google AI generated lie to the contrary:

79. The Agency has no credible indications of an ongoing, undeclared structured nuclear programme of the type described above in Iran and notes the statements of the highest officials in Iran that the use of nuclear weapons is incompatible with Islamic Law. However, repeated statements by former highlevel officials in Iran related to Iran having all capabilities to manufacture nuclear weapons continue to provide concerns in this area.

80. While safeguarded enrichment activities are not forbidden in and of themselves, the fact that Iran is the only non-nuclear-weapon State in the world that is producing and accumulating uranium enriched to 60% remains a matter of serious concern, which has drawn international attention given the potential proliferation implications.

The IAEA’s report is consistent with what Gabbard has said. Google’s slimy suggestion that Gabbard has retracted at least (some unspecified) part of that is not only slimy and slippery, but a lie, by Google — or else they are hiding from the public what the source of their slimy and slippery allegation there was. (Now, why would they do that?) Gabbard, subject to being fired and worse by Trump, did however shake her head yes — confirmatory — to Trump’s opposite assertion (that Iran poses an imminent nuclear threat) at a June 21st Trump rally. Only people who are stupid enough to still support Trump might take that nod as being a reason to continue doing so. But perhaps Gabbard now is seeking a peaceful exit from Trump’s Administration — now that she knows that he won’t allow her to speak truth publicly in her present capacity. Almost certainly she is negotiating with him the terms of her resignation.

On this basis of ongoing lies about Iran that it is the chief sponsor of terrorism (which lies were engineered for the Sauds by Robert Mueller), Trump on June 22nd started America’s war against Iran.

And Trump is either so stupid as to actually believe those lies and bomb Iran on the basis of them, or else is simply lying about virtually everything.

On the evening of June 22nd, Trump posted to his “Truth Social” a clear indication of what his objective is regarding Iran: “It’s not politically correct to use the term, ‘Regime Change,’ but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” Alexander Mercouris, in a 38-minute discussion with Alex Christoforou, gave his typical highly informative comments about this entire matter on June 23rd, “Russia-Iran meet. Medvedev nuclear post. Trump, Iran regime change”, and at the end raised the possibility that Trump’s comment was made as an invitation for Netanyahu to now acheve that so that Trump won’t ‘need’ to (which, for Trump to do, would lose him many voters at home here in the U.S.).

America and its allies (or colonies) are no longer (if they ever were) democracies. To see how that problem might be able to be fixed, please see my “How to Create an Authentic Democracy”. I invite readers there to email me their comments and questions about my proposal, and will privately respond to each.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.