Jun 23, 2025
Iran MOVED Uranium BEFORE Bombing, Sources Say
Sources are saying that Iran may have moved its uranium and equipment before the U.S. bombing of its nuclear facilities.
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Is the United States now at war with Iran?
No, Kristen, we're not at war with Iran.
We're at war with Iran's nuclear program.
Here is the Isfahan site
before the bombing.
And this is what it looks like now.
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So far, the International
Atomic Energy Agency says it's seen no
radiation leaking from the site.
And one possibility is that that's
because the nuclear material
might not have been there.
There's a report this morning
in The New York Times that fordo that deep
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underground enrichment facility was
severely damaged, but not fully destroyed
or severely damaged versus obliterated.
I'm not exactly sure
what the difference is, what we know.
- Well, one.
- Program back substantially.
While the Trump administration
is claiming that the U.S.
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Strikes on Iran's nuclear sites completely
obliterated their nuclear program.
There is some evidence
that Iran may have moved the enriched
uranium prior to the attack.
Now, if that is proven to be the case.
Trump kind of hinting at the fact that
they were going to bomb the nuclear sites,
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might have had something to do with it.
But nonetheless, some of this Intel
is coming from Israeli officials
who shouldn't be trusted since, you know,
they want a regime change war in Iran.
They do not want the United States
to agree to a cease fire.
Trump today announced on Truth Social
that he managed to get a cease fire
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agreement between Iran and Israel.
We're going to have to wait and see
if that actually comes to fruition.
But nonetheless,
there is some other evidence that Iran may
have moved their enriched uranium.
So the 60% enriched fuel
had been stored deep inside the Isfahan
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nuclear facility or nuclear complex.
Now, Rafael Mariano Grossi,
the director general of the IAEA, that's
the International Atomic Energy Agency,
said in an interview with CNN on Sunday
that Iran has made no secret
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that they have protected this material.
Asked later in the day whether he meant
that the fuel stockpile, which is stored
in a special in special casks small enough
to fit in the trunks of about ten cars,
had been moved, he replied I do,
and there's some additional evidence
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as well that I want to share with you.
So, for instance, satellite images
released by Maxar Technologies at the
tunnels leading into the Fordo mountain,
taken in the days
before the American strike, show 16 cargo
trucks positioned near an entrance.
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An analyst or analysis by the open Source
Center in London suggested that Iran may
have been preparing the site for a strike.
Now, Vice president J.D.
Vance weighed in on this
when asked about it over the weekend.
Let's take a quick look
at what he had to say.
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The UNs atomic energy watchdog
said that Iran had 900 pounds
of highly enriched uranium.
What do we know? What has become of that?
Was it destroyed in this attack?
Do we know?
That's a big step in the coming weeks.
Yeah.
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John, we're going to work
in the coming weeks to ensure
that we do something with that fuel.
And that's one of the things
that we're going to have conversations
with the Iranians about.
But what we know, John,
is they no longer have the capacity
to turn that stockpile of highly enriched
uranium to weapons grade uranium.
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And that was really the goal here.
Uranium is not that difficult to come by,
John, but enriching uranium up to the
point of a nuclear weapon, that is what
the president put a stop to last night.
So right now you have experts within the
Pentagon trying to assess how much damage
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was actually done to the nuclear sites.
But keep in mind, they did use
30,000 pound buster bunker bombs and.
- Bunker buster bombs.
- What did I say?
- Buster bunkers?
- That's hilarious.
Okay, you know what I mean.
So those bombs do serious damage, and
we're the only ones who have those bombs.
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So, look, I don't know.
We're going to have to wait and see,
but I'm worried that this is going
to be used as an excuse to keep goading
the United States to go to war with Iran?
Yes. So they want to have it both ways.
So on the one hand,
they want to say we obliterated them.
We're awesome and strong.
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On the other hand, they want to say,
well, they're not obliterated
because we want to keep fighting.
So if Israel doesn't use the excuse
of well, they moved some of them,
so not good enough.
We have to keep going to war.
I would be shocked.
What does that remind you of?
Exactly what they did in Gaza, where they
said, we've killed all of Hamas's leaders,
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so we're awesome and strong.
But not everyone in Hamas is dead,
so we have to keep going.
Okay. You're the Israeli war machine.
Always has to keep going
to do self-defense, right?
So they always have a new reason to bomb,
a new reason to kill, a new reason
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to take new land, a new reason to topple
a nearby country's government.
Okay.
All for self-defense. Okay.
So, no, they're just going
to use it as an.
By the way, I don't believe a word coming
out of American or Israeli intelligence
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going forward about whatever uranium
they might or might not have left,
because I guarantee you, it will be
propaganda, depending on what they want
on the in the rare case that this Donald
Trump ceasefire holds, and the U.S.
Intelligence and the Trump administration
wants you to believe that it's totally
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obliterated, whether they are or not,
they will insist we got rid of all of it.
Right. That is much less likely.
What is much more likely is Israel.
And then hence, of course, by definition,
America will then come back around
and go, no, we didn't get it all.
Nope.
We got there's ten vials over there
and 20 vials over there,
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and we can't get it all until we keep
bombing and bombing and regime change
and more war for self-defense.
Yep.
So, let's talk about diplomacy,
because that was really the only way to
ensure that Iran was not enriching uranium
or racing toward, basically
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being able to build a nuclear weapon.
So, again, diplomacy has been the most
successful way of ensuring that we don't
have proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The Iran nuclear deal of 2015
obviously is a good example of that.
In fact, more than 15 years ago,
the joint US Israeli attack on Natanz
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using a sophisticated cyber weapon
caused about a fifth of the country's
5000 or so centrifuges to blow up.
And, that didn't work, did it?
That didn't work.
It wasn't until you had the nuclear deal,
where you have inspectors
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going into Iran to ensure that they're not
enriching uranium to the point
where they can build the nuclear weapons.
You have checks baked into that system
to ensure that people are safe.
They're not having weapons
that are going to cause mass destruction.
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But Trump ripped that up.
And if he hadn't ripped that up,
we wouldn't find ourselves
in the position that this country is in
at this current moment.
Yeah. So that's so important.
And, you know, he could have
gone back into the deal
and just called it the Trump deal.
And he could have changed 1 or 2 lines
and it wouldn't have mattered.
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And if he wanted to brag about it
that would infuriate me.
But I'd say a lot better than war. Okay.
Yeah. Get back into the deal.
Right.
So. But why that's so important, guys,
is because in American media,
they constantly lie to you on purpose
and frame it so that it only appears
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that there are two choices.
Either Iran gets a nuclear weapon
and my God, they would obviously
immediately use it because they're
irrational, dirty, savage Muslims.
So the minute they have a nuke.
They press the button right away,
just like Pac ten.
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All right.
They didn't do it in Pakistan.
But it doesn't matter.
Dirty Muslims, dirty, dirty, dirty
Muslims, they will definitely get a nuke
and they will definitely nuke us.
Except they don't have a nuke.
You're goddamn lying.
And there's a third choice.
So they say either we're going
to get nuked or we're going to go to war,
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or you get into a peace treaty
that they were already in
where they gave away all their uranium.
Right.
And they never tell you that option
because they want you to go to war
because it's a propaganda machine.
They're not doing news.
They're doing marketing for the powerful.
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All right.
Now, somebody wrote in here
and I got to read it.
It's one of our members.
And it's a great point.
Member on Titcombe,
wandering Puerto Rican wrote in wait.
They moved the uranium.
Doesn't that sound just
like the they moved the WMD
from where we thought they were at?
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Jesus Christ, the media is spinning
the same crap from the Iraq days.
Bingo.
You remember when Rumsfeld said,
oh, no, we know where the weapons
of mass destruction are there to the north
and south and east and west of Tikrit.
Oops. They were none of those places.
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And Rumsfeld didn't know
he was lying on behalf of Israel.
We had nothing to do with Iraq.
They they did not attack us.
In fact, they were opposed to Al-Qaeda.
They were opposed
to the people who attacked us.
But Israel wanted Iraq toppled,
and now they want Iran toppled.
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Same exact thing,
weapons of mass destruction.
Oh, we couldn't find them.
Oh, they were moved.
Now we're doing regime change,
and off you go to die
and pay for all of our wars, but okay.
Trump claims there's a cease fire.
And this is all going to be that Israel
gets to bomb them for 24 more hours,
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kill as many civilians as they like,
do any bombing they like
because they're above the law.
No international law applies
to the great beloved moral Israel.
They can violate every law,
every convention.
They can murder as many civilians as
they like, but they're the most moral army
doing self-defense.
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Right?
So okay, let's see what happens
after the 24 hours.
But I would be shocked
if Netanyahu didn't grab Trump like this
and just yank him right back into the war.
And Trump being an idiot
and a sucker will be like,
oh, I'm going to be strong, Netanyahu.
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You know why we went? He did the bombing.
He saw on Fox News that they were bragging
about what a brilliant and strong mission
Israel had done in bombing Iran.
And that moron was like, oh,
I could be more brilliant and stronger.
I could bomb Iran, too.
And they had wall to wall propaganda
on Fox News because they know the moron
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only watches Fox News.
- Yeah.
- So he's going to be so easy to hoodwink.
That orange buffoon into a further war.
But maybe I'm wrong.
- I hope you are.
- I hope I'm wrong.
I hope what he announced today
is actually true,
and that both parties actually follow
through with the alleged cease fire.
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I want to be proven wrong so badly,
but honestly,
so far I haven't been proven wrong.
Everything I predicted
ended up coming true.
Adam Sosnik, the guy who threw the tampon
at me as we were debating the reason
why he did it, is because I predicted,
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accurately, that the United States
would get dragged into this war,
that we would pay for the bombs.
By the way, you think Israel paid
for those bunker buster bombs?
I think we spent 60,
60 billion total for those bombs.
That's a good question.
I'll have to look that up.
No one.
No one's asking how much those bombs cost.
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No no, no. For Israel.
Israel first. Okay.
So that's what all MAGA said, right?
Israel first.
America 28th.
Every time you ring the bell below,
an angel gets its wings.
Totally not true, but it does
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