I was there on that day in 1975 at Woodbine when Freddie Franz made that big talk and predicted the date for Armageddon
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Assuming that is true, then you are old enough to understand at least some of backstory here, which has been attested to by numerous Iranian dissidents over the years.
In the late 1990s, Iran instituted the Amad Project, with the goal of producing a minimum of five nuclear devices by the year 2004. The project, led by the late Iranian physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, acquired weapon designs from Pakistan, which they refined into working prototypes to model implosion, compression, and nuclear yields using surrogate cores.
That was 20+ years ago, so when nit-wits like Kyle Kulinski make fun of Netanyahu (and others) for repeatedly pointing out the danger here, he's simply revealing a profound ignorance of how the process works. Like I said, he lacks the technical acumen to even change a spare tire. Iran literally has been on the brink for decades now. The only thing lacking from these test devices was a viable core.
The problem, as it turned out, was twofold: Technologically advanced nations use plutonium rather than uranium for their cores and plutonium, being the product of a breeder reactor, has a unique fingerprint. Nobody, not even Pakistan, is going to hand over weapons grade plutonium to Iran, because there would be absolutely zero deniability if Iran were to actually use a device armed with it.
You've made much over a close connection between Iran and Pakistan on this thread, but Pakistan is Sunni, not Shia and although the two countries are allies on paper, their differences are severe enough to provoke a number of strikes on each other's territory during the last two years.
Being Sunni and wanting to be seen as a respectable nation and not a broker of terror, the fact that Dr. Abdul Qadeer, Pakistan's head of nuclear development, sold the technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya in the late 90's became a national embarrassment for which he was actually prosecuted for.
Developing weapons grade Uranium on the other hand, is a more arduous task, which has been complicated by a number of external factors. With the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Amad Project was split into overt and covert branches. Facilities with plausible civilian applications, like Natanz and Arak were operated openly, while covert facilities like Fordoh, took over a decade to build and equip. International pressure, token obedience to JPOA and JCPOA agreements and sanctions have slowed Iran's progress, but not stopped it.
The June 2025 IAEA report estimated Iran's nuclear capability at 9 devices if they were to refine their existing stock of 60% enriched uranium. That's not a lot and there is a fair chance that devices rushed out in this fashion could be squibs, but it does explain why Israel reached a point where they felt they could not wait any longer.
Throughout this entire thread, you've insinuated that this is some sort of conspiracy that insightful people (Presumably others like you) are not fooled by and in support of this view, you've presented YouTube garbage peppered with Gen Z antisemitism.
Aside from the fact that you're old enough to know better, I'm simply going to repeat what Sea Breeze said on page 1 of this thread.
This has been expected for years. I don't know what took Israel so long to act.
