A lot of news today. First, Iran “insists the sticking point of uranium enrichment is an issue of Iranian sovereignty.” Hey Leader, hey reporter, remember that all negotiations involve giving up and gaining aspects of sovereignty. “Iranian political analyst discusses latest talks with U.S. on a new nuclear deal,” NPR, 5-28-25.
As this blog predicted. “U.S.-Iran Talks Inconclusive After Five Rounds,” Soufan Center, 5-29-25.
“Iranian president visits Oman, as Tehran sees ‘new global order is already shaping’,” JPost, 5-28-25. “Iran is increasingly seeking to be part of this new world order, in which non-Western countries work together against America and the West.”
And this is a key part of the New Order—a nuclear bomb(s). In fact, this is what this blog has been about, in the context of Iran wants to be a revolutionary state, not a normal country. “Explosive new intelligence report reveals Iran’s nuclear weapons program still active,” Fox, 5-28-25. “A new intelligence report claims Iran is continuing with its active nuclear weapons program, which it says can be used to launch missiles over long distances.The startling intelligence gathering of Austrian officials contradicts the [public] assessment of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate Intelligence Committee in March that the American intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.” Austria’s version of the FBI — the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution — wrote Monday in an intelligence report, “In order to assert and enforce its regional political power ambitions, the Islamic Republic of Iran is striving for comprehensive rearmament, with nuclear weapons to make the regime immune to attack and to expand and consolidate its dominance in the Middle East and beyond.” The Austrian domestic intelligence agency report added, “The Iranian nuclear weapons development program is well advanced, and Iran possesses a growing arsenal of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads over long distances.” … The Austrian intelligence findings could be an unwanted wrench in President Trump’s negotiation process to resolve the atomic crisis with Iran’s rulers because the data outlined in the report suggests the regime will not abandon its drive to secure a nuclear weapon. … The danger of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism (and its illegal atomic weapons program) was cited 99 times in the 211-page report that covers pressing threats to Austria’s democracy. … When asked about the differences in conclusions between the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Austrian intelligence report, David Albright, a physicist and founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital, “The ODNI report is stuck in the past, a remnant of the fallacious unclassified 2007 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate]. “The Austrian report in general is similar to German and British assessments. Both governments, by the way, made clear to (the) U.S. IC [intelligence community] in 2007 that they thought the U.S. assessment was wrong that the Iranian nuclear weapons program ended in 2003.”
The Administration has fallen for it again, Iran’s delaying tactics. “Witkoff, the New York Times cited participants in the talks has dropped an initial rejection of any interim set of understandings on an ultimate deal, in a formula which might fall afoul of Israel and Iran hawks within the US congress.” Watch, Iran won’t even come to a conclusion on a framework agreement, they are stringing out the U.S. and its president. See “US mulling interim Iran deal framework to forestall Israeli attack – NYT,” Iran International, 5-28-25.
“Truckers’ strike persists as Tehran’s steps up arrests,” Iran International, 5-28-25.
“Iran threatens to end nuclear talks with Europe after Mandelson comments,” Guardian, 5-28-25. All he said was that Iran should have zero uranium enrichment.
Never good news when they meet, and when Moscow hosts this group. “Iran, BRICS countries attend 13th international security meeting in Moscow,” Africa News, 5-28-25.
“Iran wastes as much gas as Spain uses in a year,” Iran International, 5-28-25. “Iran wastes a staggering volume of natural gas during production and transmission—equal to Spain’s annual consumption or about half of what Turkey or Italy use each year. In regional markets, the wasted gas would be worth over $10 billion per year. It amounts to 40% of the gas used annually by Iranian households. This massive loss stems from underinvestment in gas recovery infrastructure at oil fields and an aging transmission network.” Instead of investing in infrastructure, the IRI spends its money on terror and proxies to spread the Revolution.
“Iran hangs a man convicted of spying for Israel,” AP, 5-28-25.