Before we get started, what is one of the worst things that you can think of? Among the top answers should be Hillary Clinton as president, Iran with nuclear capabilities, and ISIS getting bigger than they already are.
Now two of those options are thankfully not true, as Hillary was defeated in a landslide against President Donald Trump and ISIS has been dealing with Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who has been leveling strikes against the terror group since he was confirmed.
However the other option up there is unfortunately occurring. Iran is getting more and more nuclear power, thanks in no small part to the nuclear deal that they signed with former President Obama. The mere thought of Iran having a stockpile of uranium is enough to make world leaders lose sleep, so the thought of them having a giant supply is grounds for a horror film.
Unfortunately this is real life as the nuclear chief of Iran has said that once they receive another shipment, they will have 60 percent more stockpiled uranium than it did prior to the nuclear deal. That’s not a misrepresentation either; as they really have that much stockpiled uranium.
Since early 2016, Iran has received 210 tons of natural uranium. According to Ali Akbar Salehi, who was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency on Sunday, they are expected to receive a final batch of uranium. They are expected to receive 149 tons of natural uranium by Tuesday.
Doing simple math, the total brings us to 359 tons of uranium that has been given to Iran as a result of this deal. Considering that one of the shipments was around 133 tons and that was enough to make 10 nuclear warheads, they have nearly tripled that amount with how much they have stockpiled.
Obviously that much uranium is enough to raise concerns. It’s an element that is crucial into developing nuclear weapons. That means that all Iran has to do is highly enrich it to create a stockpile of nuclear weapons.
As we have seen from history class, nuclear weapons have a tremendous amount of power and they are extremely deadly. Therefore there should be something done to make sure that rogue nations, like Iran, aren’t receiving more uranium!
That was something that President Obama never bothered to do. Instead he literally did the opposite and gave them more uranium. They’re going to have 60 percent more of it than they did prior to Obama’s deal being signed. How in the world is that helping out the world?
Under Obama’s nuclear deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency supervises the importing of uranium. Isn’t it a little concerning that this agency isn’t saying anything against that much uranium going to a nation that has expressed publicly about destroying the United States?
Iran has claimed that they are not going to use the stockpiled uranium for nuclear causes. There are other uses for uranium that are not giant death machines. Low-enriched uranium can be used for civilian applications, including medical research. However there is still a chance that they could make the uranium highly enriched, therefore endangering the world.
Part of the deal required Iran to curb their enrichment practices and place their nuclear program under international surveillance. In addition to getting more uranium, they would have several sanctions lifted off of them. These sanctions were put in place to cripple the Iran economy to make sure that they don’t continue to break the rules.
While the medical research would greatly help the people of Iran, that can only happen if they stick to their word, which is something that Iran has had a lot of trouble doing.
Part of the problem is that Iran has broken the nuclear deal twice and nothing has been done to reprimand them. The second time that they had broken the deal they were stockpiling something called “heavy water” which is used in the creation of nuclear weapons.
The other thing to worry about is how much money that the former president has given Iran. Obama gave $1.3 billion to Iran on top of the $400 million that they received in exchange for the release of four hostages. To this day, we have no idea why the extra money was sent.
The other thing that causes concern is the fact that Iran was smuggling missile technology into their country. This was against the rules that the United Nations had placed on the country. As of right now, the only thing that has been done is the acknowledgement that technology was captured.
Part of President Trump’s campaign promise was to renegotiate the nuclear deal, as he has repeatedly said that it was one of the worst deals he has seen. Iran has also heard of Trump’s campaign promise and they struck back, saying that they are not going to renegotiate the deal.
Share this article with everyone to show that as a result of Obama’s nuclear deal, Iran now has 60 percent more uranium than when the deal was originally signed. Now it’s true that Iran might not totally enrich the uranium for nuclear weapons, but considering everything that they have said about the United States, that remains an empty promise.
