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Nuclear Weapons and Iran
With the recent tragic death of the Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi on 19 May 2024, the world is once again turned to the Shiite nation of Iran, which is engaging in a Cold War and proxy wars with its main Sunni Muslim rival in the form of Saudi Arabia.
It is now having people asking the old question of whether or not the Iranian government has access to nuclear weaponry and if they will use them to destroy their regional political rivals, mainly in the form of the states of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The short answer to whether or not Iran possesses nuclear weaponry is no.
Its elements in the political leadership within Iran, which announces that they have atomic weaponry, primarily come from ultranationalists within the Iranian parliament.
This could be interpreted similarly by Republicans or the extremes of the Democratic party regarding extreme and explosive personalities such as Donald Trump; in essence, what I’m trying to say is that they are talking primarily to their political base.
Now, let’s talk about what matters, and that is building a successful uranium explosive device that can successfully detonate a nuclear weapon.
Iran does not have the high-tech to launch a nuclear weapon and hit an enemy of Iran.
