{"id":24433,"date":"2026-03-04T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/24433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:05:00","slug":"irans-swiss-cheese-nuclear-proposal-led-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/24433\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s ‘Swiss cheese’ nuclear proposal led to war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran presented the United States with a nuclear agreement that had more holes than \u201cSwiss cheese\u201d \u2013 leading to Donald Trump<\/a> pulling the trigger on full-on war, officials have said.<\/p>\n

American negotiators suspected Tehran was stalling after leaders handed over a flimsy seven-page agreement in Geneva on Thursday, The Telegraph can disclose.<\/p>\n

In the deal, which Tehran called a \u201cneeds-based agreement\u201d, the regime pledged to enrich only enough uranium to run a civilian nuclear power station<\/a> over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

Tehran Research Reactor, which has been running for 59 years, was first thought to be a civil reactor used to build radio isotopes and create medicines for the nation. But in a \u201cPerry Mason moment\u201d, US negotiators realised it was being used to enrich uranium to 20 per cent, insiders said.<\/p>\n

American intelligence feared Iran<\/a> could enrich uranium from 20 per cent to 90 per cent, which is considered weapons grade, in as little as a month. The material could then be used to build a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran presented the United States with a nuclear agreement that had more holes than \u201cSwiss cheese\u201d \u2013 leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,65,3188,5520,5649,1202,7294,1782,41,17,15439,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-24433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-geneva","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-nuclear-deal","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nuclear-weapons","15":"tag-standard","16":"tag-swiss","17":"tag-switzerland","18":"tag-us-content","19":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116168223806644188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}