An interesting part of Shiite Islam is their practice of taqiyya, which is a form of strategic dishonesty or concealment of intent and purpose in dangerous times. I can't remember where I first read about it, but apparently a number PTB schizoid think-tank creatures have claimed that Iran's fatwah on nukes was a ruse - which was recently confirmed by the C's. So the schizoids were right in a way.
It's quite possible that Mossad/CIA types have long known that Iran has had nukes. It may be that the details were shared with Trump and Vance, and that this is why they are all hot and bothered about nukes in backpacks - they were given real, credible intel on Iran's offensive nuclear capability, plus some understanding of taqiyya... but then to spice things up, the intel spooks added the BS about how the Iranians are all a pack of mad terrorists who like backpack bombs.
I have pondered what the C's said about this matter in the
session dated 28 June 2025:
(Joe) In the previous session we asked about nukes and they said that Iran had more nukes than Israel. Does Iran have effective missile delivery means for its nukes?
A: Not yet.
Now you will notice that the C's did not say whether the nukes were either atomic bombs or hydrogen bombs. The two types of nuclear bomb are quite different in the way in which they operate and are triggered.
I should confess here that my late father worked on British nuclear warheads in the 1950's and 1960's. He could never speak about his work since it was, of course, top secret. He could only really speak in generalities. He told me, for example, that to trigger a hydrogen bomb you needed first to detonate an atomic bomb to kick start the process of a chain reaction. Indeed, a British TV documentary a few years ago showed how the British had fooled the Americans into thinking they had detonated their first hydrogen bomb on a Pacific island in the late 1950's when it was in fact really just a souped up atomic bomb.
You also needed a complex triggering mechanism which effectively set off a string of detonations in rapid sequence to trigger the nuclear explosion. This was a major issue with the first U.S atomic bomb. The problem was solved to a large extent when late in the war in Europe the Americans captured a German submarine en route to Japan on board which (very conveniently I would add) was a supply of enriched uranium, a stock of plutonium, proximity fuses for triggering a nuclear detonation and, even better, the German engineer who had designed the fuses. What a stroke of good fortune you may think since the American nuclear scientists and engineers had been grappling with the problem of creating effective proximity fuses. Well this generous windfall helped to speed up the US nuclear programme so that by August 1945 they were in a position to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan and the rest is, of course, history.
My father said that in reality it was not really that difficult in principle to make an atomic bomb but the major problem you faced was how to detonate it and survive the resulting explosion. This is where effective delivery systems come in to play. Back in the 1950's and 1960's the main delivery systems were either ballistic missile submarines or dedicated atomic bomber aircraft like the US B52 or the British Vulcan bomber. These could either fire a nuclear missile at a distance (submarine) or drop a bomb and hastily retreat from the ground zero detonation zone (aircraft). Things have, of course, moved on since then but to produce nuclear capable boats and aircraft that can survive interception before they can launch their nuclear payloads is still a prohibitively expensive and technically challenging business. There is good reason why there are still only a few nuclear capable powers in the world.
Where Iran is concerned, I doubt if they have any serviceable aircraft that could drop or launch an atomic armed missile or bomb since most of their aircraft (probably all destroyed by now) were outdated to start with and none of them were likely to have been nuclear capable platforms. Similarly, ballistic missile submarines tend to be huge leviathans capable of storing large rockets with nuclear warheads vertically. My understanding is that the Iranian Navy had only small diesel-electric submarines incapable of carrying large nuclear armed rockets. That would not necessarily rule out cruise missiles though since they can be adapted to carry nuclear warheads. Israel, for example, currently operates small German built Dolphin-class diesel-electric submarines weighing between 1900 and 2400 tonnes. These Dolphin-class submarines are capable of launching torpedoes, mines, and cruise missiles. The larger 650 mm tubes are widely believed to carry Popeye Turbo cruise missiles, potentially nuclear-armed, providing Israel with a sea-based second-strike capability. However, the INS Drakon, launched in 2023, is the largest Israeli submarine to date, featuring a lengthened hull and sail, likely housing vertical launch systems for advanced missiles (God help us all!).
Whether since June 2025 the Iranians have been able to adapt any of their cruise missiles to carry nuclear warheads so that they can be fired from a submarine is something we do not know. However, even if they had, US intelligence is claiming that none of Iran's largest submarines are now serviceable:
Kilo-class (Tareq-class) submarines: Three Russian-built diesel-electric attack submarines, each around 3,000 tons, 74 meters long, capable of carrying 18 torpedoes and anti-ship cruise missiles. These are the largest and most capable in Iran’s fleet but are limited in shallow waters due to draft requirements and are currently out of action following targeted strikes by U.S. forces in 2026 (IRIS Taregh, Yunes, Nooh).
If the airborne or submarine nuclear weapon platforms are out of the question, that leaves ground launched missiles or rockets. Could the Iranians have adapted any of their long range missiles to carry nuclear warheads since June 2025, assuming, of course, they have licked the problem of producing effective proximity fuses by now? Perhaps we could ask the C's.
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