Trump was Right About Iran's Bomb

by Kenneth R. Timmerman

 President Trump was right to say that the U.S. and our allies faced an "imminent threat" from Iran.

I can now report, based on former Iranian intelligence sources with personal knowledge of the inner workings of the Supreme Leader's office, that February 28 was the final meeting of a core group of Iranian decision-makers to determine the fate of Iran's clandestine nuclear weapons program.

Since the June 2025 strikes on Iran's nuclear weapons enrichment and production facilities had failed to eliminate the 460 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, top Iranian security officials were debating whether to weaponize that stockpile into nuclear warheads.

The group had been meeting regularly under the auspices of the Supreme Leader's Office to weigh their options and had scheduled the February 28 meeting so the Supreme Leader could personally approve their plan to proceed with the weaponization plan.

Had the February 28 meeting taken place as planned, Brig. General Hossein Jabal Amelian, who headed the organization in charge of weaponization, would have given his men the order to activate a containerized mobile centrifuge enrichment lab to enrich Iran's 460 kg of 60% uranium to 93%, and to transform the enriched uranium hexafluoride gas to uranium metal bomb cores.

By the IAEA's own calculations, Iran had enough 60% uranium to produce ten nuclear warheads with two weeks further enrichment. The international watchdog agency had also determined that Iran had a workable warhead design and had mastered production of all the complex non-nuclear components it required.

But the United States or Israel had an agent among the February 28 group who had been providing intelligence on Iran's nuclear weapons programs for several years.

That agent sent a message to his handlers with the meeting time and location but was unable to leave the meeting before the strike and was killed along with the others in the Supreme Leader's compound that morning.

The timely warning provided by that agent was the reason why President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to advance the date of their long-planned joint strikes on Iran.

Among those killed with Khamenei:

• Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme Council on National Defense
• Major General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the IRGC
• Maj General Abolrahim Mousavi, chief of the general staff of the Armed Forces
• Brig. General Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics
• Brig. Gen Hossein Jabal Amelian, Chairman of the Organization of Defense Innovation and Research (SPND), responsible for nuclear weapons design.
• Reza Mozaffari-Nia, a director and former chairman of SPND.

Israel initially claimed that the head of the Supreme Leader's Military Office, Brigadier General Mohammad Shirazi, and Salah Asadi, head of intelligence for Iran's emergency command and a senior intelligence officer within the General Staff, also attended the February 28 meeting and were killed during the decapitation strike.

Subsequent reports, however, said the two were killed in a separate strike by Israelis fighter jets two days later.  

The whereabouts of Iran's stockpile of 60% enriched uranium has been one of the recurrent mysteries of the current war.

In comments to reporters on Monday morning at Palm Beach International Airport at the foot of Air Force One, the President said that recent talks between special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kusher with unnamed Iranian officials could lead to an end to the war and future hostilities, and included an Iranian offer to turn over the uranium stockpile to the United States.

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