Concern Growing Over Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

Reports coming out of Friday's meeting between US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington, DC indicate growing concern that Iran will recieve assistance from Russia in the nuclear realm in return for Iran's provision of ballistic missiles and other weapons Moscow needs to fight its war against Ukraine.

The UN's International Atomic Energy Agency has sounded the alarm over the past few weeks regarding Iran's growing stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which is one of the most important components of a working nuclear weapon.

Despite the massive and growing body of evidence of its malign activities, Iranian officials continue to flatly deny any wrongdoing, including that it is pursuing a military nuclear weapons program or that it has exported ballistic missiles or any other weapons to Russia.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has gone a step further, declaring that Western sanctions on Iran will not have the effect of pressuring the regime in Teheran into changing course.

“It’s surprising that Western countries still do not know that sanctions are a failed tool and that they are unable to impose their agenda on Iran through sanctions,” he said.

As if to prove this point, Iran's space agency launched a satellite into orbit on Saturday on top of a rocket that was built by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Gen. Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps missile program, characterized the successful launch as proof that Iran can overcome “the atmosphere of extensive and oppressive international sanctions.”

Many analysts have warned that Iran's space program could be serving as a cover for its ballistic missile program.