Waltz tells Iran to give up their nukes program "or there will be consequences"

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Iran on Sunday that if they refuse to dump their entire nuclear program, they will face consequences.

Waltz, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation," said that it's time for Iran to "walk away completely" from its pursuit of nuclear weapons, pushing for a "full dismantlement." 

"This isn't some kind of, you know, kind of tit-for-tat that we had under the Obama administration or Biden," Waltz said. "This is the full program. Give it up or there will be consequences."

Waltz obviously didn't tip his hand by saying exactly what those consequences would be, but he was clear that President Trump is keeping "all options on the table," and didn't rule out diplomacy.

He went on to explain that the administration wants Iran, the largest sponsor of global terrorism, to ditch its nuclear program "in a way that the entire world can see."

"If [Iran] had nuclear weapons, the entire Middle East would explode in an arms race," Waltz said. "That is completely unacceptable to our national security. I won't get into what the back-and-forth has been, but Iran is in the worst place it has been from its own national security since 1979."

Since Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel immediately after Hamas attacked the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, tensions between Tehran and the US have been very high. And to increase that tension, Iran directly fired upon Israel twice in 2024.

Never a blushing flower, President Trump threatened to use the military if Iran doesn't negotiate a new agreement on its nuclear program. Although Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he isn't interested in talks with a "bullying government," he's been reported to have been changing his skivvies on unusually high occasions and Iranian diplomats such as Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had previously suggested talks could be the way to go. However, he talked tougher once Khamenei made his comment.

The original 2015 nuclear deal negotiated under former weak President Barack Obama allowed Iran to enrich uranium up to only 3.67% purity and to maintain a uranium stockpile of 661 pounds. The International Atomic Energy Agency's last report on Iran’s program put its stockpile at 18,286 pounds as it enriches a fraction of it to 60% purity. And we can bet that Iran was secretly enriching uranium much higher than that level of purity.

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U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program, but has "undertaken activities that better position it to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do so."

Anyone who knows anything about the Iranian mindset is aware that once they produce a nuclear weapon, they are not going to allow it to collect dust.

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