Dan Robinson

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Dan Robinson

Dan Robinson

@DanRobinsonDC

Former White House, Congressional and Foreign Correspondent

Potomac, MD Katılım Ekim 2008
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@ChrisMurphyCT Wow, so you go from pretty much 100 percent negativity against the war effort, to this. Hypocrite.
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@McFaul Here we go again. . .anybody who thinks, in the face of statements by IRGC about wiping Israel off the map and Death to America, and known NOKOR assistance to IRGC, that they weren't pursuing at least a first weapon, should have their head examined
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Please show the graph back to 2015. Then readers will see that 60% enriched uranium was "0%" under JCPOA. 0%! JCPOA capped enrichment at 3.67%. Iran had the ability to produce "0" nuclear weapons under JCPOA. 0. And that would have lasted until 2030. And then another agreement could have been negotiated. Instead, now, we will now need another war in 2030 (just as Trump suggested) or maybe sooner. Iran today has more highly enriched uranium today than under JCPOA. That is a fact. (Everyone else, go and ask CHAT GPT or Claude to check these facts. The data are very clear.) PS Trump hinted tonight that he not NOT going to do anything to get rid of the 400kg of 60% enriched uraniaum that the theocrats have right now. Thats the way I interpreted his speech tonight. We are just doing to use satellites to monitor it! I hope Im wrong. Ill check back with you in 6 months to see who was right and who was wrong. (Im very experienced at acknowleging my inaccaurate assessments.)
Mark Dubowitz@mdubowitz

From the election of Joe Biden in November 2020, and his decision to stop the maximum pressure campaign, Iran steadily amassed huge quantities of enriched uranium.

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Brit Hume
Brit Hume@brithume·
This account has a silly name, but often posts serious and informative takes. Here the author explains why attacking Iran's conventional military is also an attack on its nuclear weapons program. And Marco Rubio adds some clarity as well.
Gummi@gummibear737

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

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Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman@BillAckman·
Spot on
Gummi@gummibear737

Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot

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Visioner
Visioner@visionergeo·
🇮🇱🇮🇷 An American pilot with 25 years of experience, a veteran of three wars and hundreds of combat sorties, spoke about Israeli military pilots. He published a post that quickly went viral: “I’ve flown over Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. I thought I had seen everything. But when I saw what the Israeli Air Force is doing in Iran, I realized I’m still a student. Precision. Logistics. 200 aircraft in one night. 500 targets. 1,500 kilometers. No aerial refueling from American bases. All the fuel from home. All the weapons from home. It’s like flying from Miami to New York, bombing targets along the way, and returning— while 200 aircraft move simultaneously without a single collision. To the Israeli pilots: You are not just the best in the Middle East. You are the best in the world. And that’s the final word.”
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 HOLY CRAP! No WONDER Gavin Newsom is suing to block Trump's executive order requiring barcode tracking for mail-in ballots CA vote fraudster Shakir Khan had 71 NAMES and 41 COMPLETED MAIL-IN BALLOTS at his single house They want to protect fraud.
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Liza Rosen
Liza Rosen@LizaRosen0000·
40,000 protesters were massacred in January by the Islamic regime in Iran. But world leaders turned a blind eye because they feared losing Muslim votes.
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Iran today is closer today towards developing a nuclear weapon , even after this war, than they were when they signed the nuclear deal with Obama and other countries. Trump is spewing complete disinformation right now.
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@FurkanGozukara So, what would you have done with this ship? Perhaps some kind of ACTION, of the kind that POTUS has taken with Iran -- in contrast to decades of diplomatic BS with IRGC?
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
Absolute humiliation for the White House. CNN's top journalist Christiane Amanpour confirms Russia just completely shattered the US naval blockade on Cuba. Putin sent a massive oil tanker right through America's backyard and Trump did absolutely nothing.
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@McFaul There you go again -- argument that deterrence was actually working.
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Iran's air force, navy & missiles have never posed a direct threat to the American homeland. Before Trump's war, the US defense posture in the region had deterred the use of these conventional capabilities preemptively against our forces close to Iran or our allies. Maybe they would have in the future, but that presumption was based on a guess/intuition/gut feeling, not (publicly revealed) intel.
Department of State@StateDept

SECRETARY RUBIO: Here are the clear objectives of the operation. You should write them down: 1. The destruction of Iran’s air force 2. The destruction of their navy 3. The severe diminishing of their missile launching capability 4. The destruction of their factories 🎯

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Miles
Miles@MilesSm03562554·
@McFaul Iran is directly responsible for the deaths of over 1,000 US soldiers and marines. You cannot with a straight face say they did not pose any threat.
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Gunny is my Dog
Gunny is my Dog@GunnyBoy7·
You are implying allied collective defense is only good in situations you choose as a partisan. Here are a few examples. 1. Libya posed no direct threat to the US, yet Obama bombed Libya and Khadaffi was murdered. 2. Russia was not directly threatening the US or any NATO members in Ukraine, yet Obama and Biden decided to wage a proxy war on Russia. 3. Serbia was not a direct threat to the US, yet Clinton launched a war further fracturing the Balkans. You have never condemned the use of force when a Democrat President waged a kinetic military campaign on a nation who posed no direct threat to the US homeland. You are a simple partisan who only seeks to undermine your political opposition.
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@McFaul Yeah, see numerous comments telling you what you should know and probably do but just don't discuss. Anyone who thinks IRGC was not violating needs his head examined.
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Do you remember what the enrichment cap was for Iran under the JCPOA before Trump tore it up? 3.67%.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47

.@SecRubio: "Why do they continue to refuse to turn over 60% enriched uranium? There's only one reason — and that is because they want to hold it and keep it to one day use it to build a bomb."

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Helix 🇺🇸
Helix 🇺🇸@spiralgazer·
It’s honestly surreal to see anyone still pointing to the 2015 JCPOA as some kind of 'success' when the ground reality has completely demolished that theory. You’re talking about a 3.67% enrichment limit written on a piece of paper, but while you were celebrating the deal, the regime was busy proving that the paper didn’t mean a thing to them. The ultimate proof of that failure wasn't just a minor slip, it was the 84% red flag. In 2023, the IAEA found particles at the underground Fordow site enriched to 83.7% purity. That is not a 'fluctuation' or an accident, it’s a heartbeat away from 90% weapons-grade, and there is zero civilian justification for it on this planet. They weren't being 'contained' by your deal, they were running circles around it, using the diplomatic cover and the $100 billion in sanctions relief to master the exact technology needed to build a bomb while your team was busy checking seals on old centrifuges. The JCPOA didn't stop the threat; it just subsidized it. It gave them the 'breathing room' to fund their 'strategic depth' through the Axis of Resistance (Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis) and perfect the high-tech triggers and hypersonic missiles needed to actually deliver a nuke. To keep citing a 2015 enrichment cap of 3.67% now, after they've already hit 84% and set the region on fire, is just willful blindness. The regime didn't follow the letter of your deal, they used it as a refueling station to reach the finish line.
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@jonfavs "Bombing Iran" When did you stop recognizing the decades IRGC attacks on U.S. personnel and funding of proxies? Stop with the hyper TDS and wake up.
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Dan Robinson@DanRobinsonDC·
@NickKristof Yeah well this statement could apply under every administration l, and applies to Putin, Xi, Kim and the IRGC. So, go tell it to them as well.
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Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof@NickKristof·
Imagine if instead of spending $1.3 million/minute on war in Iran, we spent this on people. With 3 days of war, we could eliminate the worst form of global hunger, saving 1.5m kids' lives. With less than 3 weeks worth, we could offer national pre-K or college for all Americans.
AF Post@AFpost

State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” Follow: @AFpost

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