Tudor Dixon (17:28)
let's get back to the crappy nuclear deal. They had these temporary restrictions according to the deal. But again, those restrictions, they were going to be released now, 2026, 2031, between those two dates, like all of a sudden, instant nuclear weapon. I guess they thought, like Iran was going to play by the rules and not do anything. No. They started bringing in massive amounts of money and building these centrifuges. But even those temporary restrictions, they were, they were getting so, so, so much. Their previously frozen assets. And we're talking about billions of dollars. When they signed this deal, all they had, all they had to put was a little signature on this deal, and they got billions of dollars unfrozen. So obviously they're going to start building. Notice the people of Iran, their lives haven't gotten a lot better. They're not living lives of luxury. That money didn't go to them. I mean, my gosh, they didn't even have water a few weeks ago. It was like a few weeks ago. They had no water. But they've had billions of dollars unlocked, no sanctions. They're building up a massive amount of money during this time that this deal is signed. And this is known to all the world leaders, yet they sit back and they watch. They sign the deal prior to the US Getting out of the deal, prior to President Trump getting out of the deal. Because, remember, he was like, this deal is crap. Because he's not exactly someone who minces words. I'm out of this deal. And people were crazy about it. They were so mad. How could he get out of this deal? Look at this deal. Break down this deal. It's a crap deal for everybody but Iran. They get all their sanctions taken away. They have all these assets unfrozen. They signed over $100 billion in contracts with foreign countries or foreign companies during this time. So they're getting billions every which way. They're bringing in billions from the deals. They're bringing in billions from the money. That's unlocked. President Obama is just bringing pallets of cash. I mean, legitimately bringing pallets of cash to them. What in the world? How could this go wrong for them? And these are like truly sick people. Sick, sick, sick, cultist sick people. So in that short period of time, they are building like crazy. They're building up their proxies. Remember, they've got Hezbollah, they've got Hamas, they've got the Houthis. Remember what Hamas does, We get out of this deal. And Joe Biden becomes president, does that then make it harder for Iran to do anything? No. Joe Biden gives him $6 million unfreezes, or 6 billion unfreezes, $6 billion worth of cash for them to just spend however they want. And within, what, two years of that, they go and they invade Israel, they kill 49Americans, they take 12Americans hostage. We saw their strength, we saw their power. Donald Trump was saying, this would never have happened, this war on Israel would never have happened had I not left office. And he was right. He was right because, you see, he was doing this ingenious thing. He had the Abraham Accords, he was bringing peace to the Middle east, but he knew Iran was never going to be a part of that, because they wanted control, they wanted to be able to bomb places, they wanted to take over, destabilize Iraq, they wanted to destabilize Lebanon, they wanted to destabilize Yemen, Bahrain, they wanted to go after Gaza. And they don't treat their people well. So we saw this. The most critical problem with the nuclear deal was that it failed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in the long term. But now we're there, we're in the long term. This is the long term. So you saw President Trump go back into office and he said, I'm going to try to negotiate. Because he knew when he got out of the deal in 2018, remember, after the pallets of cash and then 2023, Joe Biden unfroze the $6 billion and handed it to Iran. He knew that they had grown their nuclear program. They grew it during that time. And the agreement was in effect. Remember, the agreement was in fact from 2015 to 2018. And it allowed them to build. It didn't do anything to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. So they built the centrifuges at the point where they were building so much, they're bringing in cash, they're building this so much, they're enriching their uranium. They're getting closer. They got exactly what they wanted. They've cold, hard cash. This didn't take 47 years. I think that's the critical part to remember when people are saying this is. This is. They haven't been after us for 47 years. You hear these, these influencers like, oh, are you telling me that 47 years has gone by and we were in danger that whole time? Actually, no, we're not saying that it's been happening for 47 years. It's actually quite recently that they started to develop these significant capabilities to produce nuclear weapons. When Donald Trump left office in 2020 and Joe Biden took office, they had all that money and they became more advanced. We could see it over time. Their facilities you could see, because we could see on satellite images them digging out, them excavating, them building. They were getting better at the uranium enrichment. So we know that they were enriching uranium to 60%, 60% or more. And we know that 60% or more enrichment is headed towards weapon grade. That's when you're heading towards weapons grade uranium, when you're 60% or more, that you can't claim energy, you can't claim you're powering things up, can't claim any of that. You are headed towards weapons grade uranium. So that's what they were doing and this agreement was allowing them to fund that. So we're talking about six years ago, this is 2020, not 47, not 40, not even 15. We're talking about six years ago. They're getting to the point where they're building nuclear grade weapons. We know they are. And yet today I'm hearing people say, they don't think that they were, they don't think that they were a threat to the United States. They don't think that there was that information in front of them. This isn't just me saying this. Just so we're clear. The International Atomic Energy Agency was monitoring this. Now there was a time during the agreement where they got kicked out. I mean, that's how stupid we were. It's like Iran's like, yeah, we don't want anybody watching this. And everybody's like, okay, where did we sign? I mean, honestly, seriously. So then they come back in, they're monitoring what's going on, and they see that In January of 2021, they confirmed that Iran has resumed enriching uranium to 20%. This is 20% at the Fordeau fuel enrichment plant. And then they surpassed those limits. And those limit there were limits that were imposed by this deal. Even if the deal was still in place, they're surpassing those limits. And By April of 2021, they begin enriching uranium to 60% at the Natanz facility. Then in November of 2022, they begin enriching to 60% at the Fordeau facility. And in February of 2023, the UN reported that uranium particles enriched to 83.7% were found at the Fordo facility. Just barely shy of weapons grade. Weapons grade uranium is 90%. They've got, they've got particles that are 83.7. Now Iran is like, oh, no, that was an accident. We don't know how that got there. Just had a few of those particles that were so, so enriched. We're really only at 60, folks. Doesn't matter if it's at 60. 60% is headed toward weapons grade. You don't need 60. 90% is weapons grade. So now they've found 83.7%. For those who are saying that Iran was nowhere near a nuclear weapon, the Institute for Science and International Security assessed in February of 2024. February of 2024, two years ago, that the breakout time needed to produce a nuclear weapon for Iran at that point was just days. It was approximately one week. One week for them to go in 2024, one week for them to get a nuclear weapon. This isn't just somebody saying this. This is the Institute for Science and International Security. They're saying that they're one week away. February of 2024, they're one week away from a nuclear weapon. Got these people saying, well, we weren't under threat. That's two years ago. They were one week away. An international agency assessed that they needed one week. Just one week. And you've got people saying, we were never under a threat. Okay, one week with the most mentally unstable people in the world. That, let's remember, these are the people that believe if they destroy the world, they've done God's will. These people are nuts. And they're not nuts with no power. They're crazy people with weapons. They're crazy people in a country of a hundred million people. So not only are they bringing in money from their oil reserves and from the deals that they're making, they're probably just taking all of the money they can from their hundred million people. A country of a hundred million is not a small country. And they've controlled it for 47 years. That's the part of the 47 years that should concern you. They've had control of a very large country with the third largest oil reserves in the world for 47 years. That means lots of money and that means lots of danger. In fact, the IAEA said that they had a significant quantity of enriched uranium. As of late 2023, Iran had enough enriched uranium to produce three nuclear weapons. As soon as they were ready to take that up to weapons grade again, just days away from being able to take it up there, then nobody believes that those particles were a big deal. But remember, those particles that were 83.7%, they were found at the Fordo nuclear site in 2023. So they were just shy of the 90% needed. So fast forward to May of 2025. We have estimates that now in May of 2025, less than a year ago, Iran possesses 408.6 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%. So that's an increase from February of 2025. In February of 2025, they were reporting just 274 kilograms. So we go from 274 to 408 from February of 2025 to May of 2025. And if that had been enriched to 90%, that stockpile would be enough for nine nuclear weapons. So we've gone from 2023 where they're ready to make three nuclear weapons, to 2025 where they're ready to make nine nuclear weapons. You can see why in June of 2025 we had the 12 day war, Fordeau, Natanz, if Isfahan, all nuclear facilities, they were largely destroyed. Many of their nuclear scientists were killed. And then the talks begin. And it's clear that they don't want to stop. And people in the United States are like, I thought you destroyed it. And you see all of these news media people that are just propagandists that are like, well, we, we. You said you destroyed it. Why are you worried now? Obviously, they, no idea what manufacturing is, what, how it can come back online, what they had underground, they're, they're rapidly, obviously trying to get manufacturing back up. They have, I'm sure, I'm sure they have their own version of the cloud where they've got all the nuclear recipes. And I, and I don't say recipes lightly. That's what it's, what it essentially is. You have to know how to make it. They have that. They have the technology. They've been bragging about it. We saw these ships getting to place. They weren't budging. They saw this too. They weren't questioning whether the President was serious about what he was saying. They certainly saw that the ships were coming into place, that they were going to attack. Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon podcast. It's happening across America. 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