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30 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Thread on goals/progress of Iran's nuclear bomb program under Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. 1/ Evidence of goal: Photo below of Shahab-3 missiles on parade in Iran. The sign on the front truck says: "Israel must be destroyed."
2/ Evidence of progress on sign goal: Iran, led by Fakhrizadeh, designed & modeled "removal of the conventional high explosive payload from the warhead of the Shahab-3 missile and replacing it with a spherical nuclear payload"(quote from IAEA 2011 report)

iaea.org/sites/default/…
3/ Overview of overall progress by Iran, led by Fakhrizadeh, towards atomic bomb: "Intelligence provided to U.N. nuclear officials shows that Iran’s government has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon." (quote from Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/world/national…
4/ Evidence of outside help w/ Iran atom bomb: A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan’s successful nuclear weapons program, said Pakistan provided Iran with bomb-related drawings, parts for centrifuges to purify uranium, and a secret worldwide list of suppliers. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
5/ More evidence of outside help w/ Iran atom bomb: Iran admitted that it received from Pakistan, and indeed has provided the IAEA with a copy of, a document detailing how to shape enriched uranium for use in a bomb.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
6/ Yet more evidence of outside help w/ Iran atom bomb: Former Soviet nuclear weapon designer Vyacheslav Danilenko helped Iran make detonators which "have one known purpose: squeezing a lump of highly enriched uranium to trigger a nuclear chain reaction." washingtonpost.com/world/national…
7/ 2014: Obama sanctions SPND, "Tehran-based entity...primarily responsible for research in the field of nuclear weapons development," led by "Fakhrizadeh, who for many years has managed activities useful in the development of a nuclear explosive device." 2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/20…
8/ November 11, 2020: IAEA expresses concern regarding signs of covert Iranian nuclear program, saying, "The Agency considered Iran’s response to be unsatisfactory because it was not technically credible." iaea.org/sites/default/…

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30 Nov
2/ Obama DOD Law of War Manual, issued 2016, restated & endorsed long-held JAG position that "civilian scientists occupying key positions in a weapons program regarded as vital to a nation's national security or war aims [are] liable to legitimate attack." dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Docu…
3/ Obama Admin's DOD Law of War Manual also restated & endorsed that "more than 900 of the World War II Project Manhattan personnel were civilians, and their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program was of such importance as to have made them liable to legitimate attack."
4/ Fakhrizadeh more than fit the description: he was not just an Iran nuclear weapons scientist but the program's chief, and per BBC also "head of the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation." bbc.com/news/world-mid…
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30 Nov
WSJ news article: "There is broad agreement that the killing of Mr. Fakhrizadeh removed a manager with unparalleled knowledge of Iran’s past work & current capabilities, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official."

wsj.com/articles/irans…
WSJ news article: "His [Fakhrizadeh's] knowledge would have been important for Iran to mount a crash effort to build a nuclear bomb, current and former Western officials say."
wsj.com/articles/irans…
WSJ news article: "An Israeli raid on an Iranian nuclear archive in 2018 showed that Tehran had retained much of its nuclear weapons know-how from its past weapons program."
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30 Nov
Thread:Why Israel & its GulfArab allies insist renewed Irandeal also limit new, far more accurate Iran missiles:"the continued growth in size & accuracy of Iran’s missile force ensures its ability to saturate & overwhelm missile defenses in Gulf & Israel." bit.ly/3o4ADMU
2/ "With enough PGMs (precision guided missiles) fired at the same target, Iran’s proxies may be able to outmaneuver, outsmart, or overwhelm Israeli missile-defense systems, with the result that one or more rockets would get through." commentarymagazine.com/articles/jonat…
3/ "If the intended target is the chemical plant in Haifa [or] Ben Gurion International Airport, the results could be catastrophic." commentarymagazine.com/articles/jonat…
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28 Nov
Thread: 1/ EU is wrong to call killing of Fakhrizadeh "a criminal act." The U.S. Army JAG Corps has explicitly taken the position that such a killing is legal during international armed conflict, using as an example the U.S.'s own nuclear weapons program. law.upenn.edu/institutes/cer…
2/ Per the JAG Corps' definitive memorandum: "More than 90% of the World War II Project Manhattan personnel were civilians, and their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program was of such importance as to have made them liable to legitimate attack." law.upenn.edu/institutes/cer…
3/ The US JAG Corps memorandum explains that Project Manhattan civilians were legitimate targets for killing during wartime because they were "civilian scientists occupying key positions in a weapons program regarded as vital to a nation’s national security or war aims."
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28 Nov
Thread: 1/ EU is wrong to call killing of Fakhrizadeh "a criminal act." The US Army JAG Corps has explicitly taken the position that such a killing is legal during international armed conflict, using as an example the U.S.'s own nuclear weapons program. law.upenn.edu/institutes/cer…
2/ Per the JAG Corps' memorandum: "More than 90% of the World War II Project Manhattan personnel were civilians, and their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program was of such importance as to have made them liable to legitimate attack." law.upenn.edu/institutes/cer…
3/ The US JAG Corps memorandum explains that Project Manhattan civilians were legitimate targets for killing during wartime because they were "civilian scientists occupying key positions in a weapons program regarded as vital to a nation’s national security or war aims."
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27 Nov
Thread: 1/ To those calling illegal Israel's killing of Iran nuclear weapons program chief Fakhrizadeh: US Army JAG Corps has explicitly taken the position that such killing is legal during international armed conflict, using as an example the U.S.'s own nuclear weapons program.
2/ Per the JAG Corps' memorandum: "More than 90% of the World War II Project Manhattan personnel were civilians, and their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program was of such importance as to have made them liable to legitimate attack."

law.upenn.edu/institutes/cer…
3/ Per BBC, Fakhrizadeh was not only participant but "head of the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation," and "senior officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," which has in its entirety been designated by US as terrorist org.
bbc.com/news/world-mid…
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