{"id":29054,"date":"2024-12-23T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/irans-weakened-position-could-lead-it-to-pursue-nuclear-weapon-biden-national-security-adviser-warns\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T22:59:08","slug":"irans-weakened-position-could-lead-it-to-pursue-nuclear-weapon-biden-national-security-adviser-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/23\/irans-weakened-position-could-lead-it-to-pursue-nuclear-weapon-biden-national-security-adviser-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s weakened position could lead it to pursue nuclear weapon, Biden national security adviser warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House is concerned that Iran\u2019s weakened position<\/a> will prompt the regime to pursue a nuclear weapon, and national security adviser Jake Sullivan is coordinating with the Trump team on this concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iran has suffered a year of setbacks amid Israeli assaults on its proxy forces and a pull-out from Syria amid the takeover by Sunni Muslim forces, hostile to Iran’s Shiite government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israeli strikes on Iranian facilities,<\/a> including missile factories and air defenses, have reduced Iran\u2019s conventional military capabilities, Sullivan told CNN on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“What I found over the last four years is that when good things happen, like Iran being weaker than it was before, there are frequently bad things lurking around the corner,” Sullivan said.<\/p>\n

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“If you\u2019re Iran right now and you\u2019re looking around at the fact that your conventional capability has\u00a0been reduced, your proxies have\u00a0been reduced, your main client state has\u00a0been eliminated, Assad has fallen, it\u2019s no wonder there are voices saying: \u2018Hey, maybe we need to go for a nuclear weapon right now,'” the outgoing national security official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re saying it publicly, in fact. They\u2019re saying: Maybe we have to revisit our nuclear doctrine. A doctrine that has said: We\u2019ll have a civilian nuclear program and certain capabilities, but we\u2019re not going for a nuke,” he added. “It\u2019s a risk we\u2019re trying to be vigilant about now.”<\/p>\n

While Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, but it has expanded uranium enrichment<\/a> since the last Trump administration to 60% purity, a short step away from the 90% needed for a nuclear weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week the United Kingdom, Germany and France publicly called on Iran to “reverse its nuclear escalation,” arguing there is no “credible civilian justification” to stockpile 60% uranium.<\/p>\n

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Sullivan said there was a risk Iran would abandon its promise not to build nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

“It’s a risk we are trying to be vigilant about now. It’s a risk that I’m personally briefing the incoming team on,” Sullivan said, adding that he was consulting with Israel too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, could bring back his “maximum pressure”<\/a> policy to cripple Iran\u2019s oil financing.<\/p>\n

Sullivan held out hope Trump could come in and use Iran\u2019s weakened position to get them to agree to a new nuclear deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Maybe he can come around this time, with the situation Iran finds itself in, and actually deliver a nuclear deal that curbs Iran’s nuclear ambitions for the long term,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s team is currently weighing its options to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, including preventive airstrikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House is concerned that Iran\u2019s weakened position will prompt the regime to pursue a nuclear weapon, and national security adviser Jake Sullivan is coordinating with the Trump team on this concern.\u00a0 Iran has suffered a year of setbacks amid Israeli assaults on its proxy forces and a pull-out from Syria amid the takeover … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}