NEWSRAEL: Blinken, like many brainless Leftists, will believe in his folly until the very end. His Iranian folly will be his legacy.
“I don’t think that a nuclear weapon is inevitable,” the secretary of state told the Council on Foreign Relations.
Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that there is still time to negotiate nuclear deal with Iran, despite the opinion of the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Blinken said, “I don’t think that a nuclear weapon is inevitable,” and that “there is the prospect of negotiations” with the incoming Republican administration.
He did acknowledge circumstances had somewhat changed recently, saying that the Iranians have recently “lost different lines of defense” so “sure, you’re going to see more thinking” about racing to a bomb.
The Islamic Republic has just seen its most important client state, Syria, fall to Sunni Islamist rebels almost without a fight, and its chief terror proxy, Hezbollah in Lebanon, decimated by the IDF and agree to a ceasefire and withdrawal miles away from Israel.
In addition, in retaliation for Iran’s second unsuccessful attempt at striking Israel with a massive wave of missiles in October, the IDF destroyed vital components of the mullahs’ ballistic missile program as well all their advanced air defenses in an airstrike later that month.
The secretary of state spoke just two days after International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Grossi told Italian news agency ANSA that “The philosophy of the original accord with Iran can be used, but that agreement is no longer useful.”
This is because the Islamic Republic had “developed much stronger capabilities,” he explained, noting that “It has uranium at 60% — 90% is military grade — and is thus practically at the same level as nuclear-armed states.”