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you know, fault never should have gotten in the thing to begin with.

It was all the whole Iranian nuclear threat is as much bullshit as the Iraqi nuclear threat.

I mean, yeah, it is true that they have a civilian nuclear program that Iraq didn't have.

And it is.

I know I saw when Mike Baker was on who I love.

I love Mike Baker, but I think he's wrong about all this stuff.

But when he was when you even you had said to him at one point where you were like, yeah, but like, you know, the counter argument to that is that this is like a latent nuclear deterrent.

is the idea, not that they're developing a nuclear weapon.

And Mike was basically like, yeah, but they're up to 60%.

And that's on its way to 90%.

But the thing is, why weren't they at 90%?

They didn't have to stop at 60%.

They mastered the fuel cycle and they figured out all this technology a long time ago.

They could have enriched up to weapons grade.

Why did they stop at 60%?

And why did they then enter negotiations with the United States of America about the level to which they were enriching uranium?

Because it's that.

It's a latent nuclear deterrent.

It's a bargaining chip.

They were down at like 3% to 5% or something under the JCPOA until Trump tore it up, until Trump backed out of it, and then under the rules of the JCPOA, because they're still in it with Europe, and we'll see where that goes now, but they were allowed to up the enrichment once America pulled out, and so they exercised that option in the agreement.