Netanyahu, Carlson, the IAEA, and Iran

 Carlson is on the warpath: Trump is a warmonger, and so is Netanyahu. Iran has no desire to build a nuclear weapon. Carlson interviewed Jeremy Sachs, whose expertise is in analyzing societies and offering up solutions to problems (a public policy analyst). He is a director in  the Ivy League Columbia University. Sach asserts very plainly that Iran has no desire to make nuclear weapons.  Sachs ties this in with Iran’s attitude toward the IAEA:

 

“…the IAEA- the International Atomic Energy Agency- can, and has, and has successfully monitored and set up absolutely rigorous monitoring. And Iran is open to that, and has said so repeatedly, and has said it would work with the neighbors on the fuel supply chains- and all the rest. There is no obstacle to this whatever. I think we’re close to an agreement with Iran- in fact, thanks to President Trump.”[1]

 

This interview went out on June 12, 2025. Israel struck Iran on June 13th. Sach was right to worry about an impending conflict. He was also prescient in his belief that the United States would get roped into it. President Trump is in full support of Israel, going as far to refer to “We [the United States and Israel] now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.”[2]

 

However, there are always two sides to the story. The IAEA publicly published on its website its full report on Iran’s nuclear activity. Iran had enriched uranium to 60%, and was most likely on its way to raise this to 90%, the threshold for nuclear weapons. Civilian use of uranium requires a very modest 20%. This causes the IAEA report to conclude, “Iran has no civilian use or justification for its production of 60 percent enriched uranium”. Just as worryingly to the IAEA was the speed at which Iran was enriching uranium, for Iran had the capacity to raise the level to 90% “in as little as two to three days.” Iran had “enough for 9 nuclear weapons”. The report refers to “multiple violations” of regulations, and that “[i]n front of the [IAEA] inspectors’ eyes, Iran is undertaking the near-final step of breaking out”.

 

This report was published on IAEA’s site on June 9, 2025, but the report itself was compiled on May, 2025. Four days later, on June 13^th, Israel went to war. Was Netanyahu perhaps using the public report by the IAEA as some kind of Doomsday clock? Nuclear weapons could be made in three days. It was four days after the report that Israel struck. Did he wait in order to get international credibility from the IAEA’s report on its website? Netanyahu knew about the report on May 31, speaking about it, calling for Israel to defend itself. [3] Why didn’t Israel strike in May 31st, or June 1^st?

 

Carlson and Sachs called it. But they got their facts wrong about the nuclear intentions of Iran, so implies the IAEA report.

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[1] Speaking on Carlson’s TCN. Tucker Carlson, “Don't Be Fooled By the Latest Propaganda About Iran's Nuclear Program,” YouTube, June 12, 2025., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMMCNR4fvYA&ab_channel=TuckerCarlsonNetwork.

[2] Donal Trump, “Truth Details,” Truth Social, June 17, 2025, 11:55am, https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114699514822488706

[3] Reuters, “After alarming IAEA report, Netanyahu urges world to ‘act now to stop Iran’, “ May 31, 2025, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/after-alarming-iaea-report-netanyahu-urges-world-to-act-now-to-stop-iran/.