Scott Horton

That the Ayatollah will change his mind about God changing his mind and will say that actually maybe we do need a nuclear deterrent.

That's really what it's been for this whole time is a bluff.

We have bullets in one pocket, revolver in another.

Let's not you and me fight and escalate this thing.

It's the same position, by the way, as Japan and Germany and Brazil.

Two of the three of those are under America's nuclear umbrella, I admit, but still, where they've proven they've mastered the fuel cycle and they can make nuclear weapons.

But hey, since nobody's directly threatening them now, why escalate things and go ahead and make atom bombs?

That has been their position the whole time, because after all, they could not break out and make a nuke without everyone in the world knowing about it.

And that's why, Lex, I'm sure you can vouch for me on this.

If you've been watching TV over the past few weeks, you'll hear Marco Rubio and all the government officials and all the warhawks say, oh yeah, 60%, 60%.

What do you think they need with that 60%?

Implying that, oh yeah, see, they're racing toward a bomb.

But you see how they always just imply that?

They won't come right out and say that because it's a ridiculous lie.

They could have enriched up to 90 plus percent uranium-235 this whole time.

The reason they were enriching up to 60 percent was in reaction to Israeli sabotage, first of all, assassinating their nuclear scientists, and then their sabotage at Natanz.

They started enriching up to 60 percent, just like they did in the Obama years, to have a bargaining chip to negotiate away.

Under the JCPOA, they shipped out everybody

bit of their enriched uranium to France to be turned into fuel rods and then shipped back into the country to be used in their reactors.

And so they're just trying to get us back in that deal.