On Tuesday Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, refuted President Trump and insisted the Iranian regime was not seeking nuclear arms.
President Trump isn’t very good at picking people for his administration. Coats is a prime example. After the president insisted that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, Coats testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and he refuted Trump on everything. He sounded like a lobbyist for Iran and even used some of Obama’s talking points.
The very next day it was announced that Iran is transferring yellowcake, which is like powdered uranium that is easy to work with.
Politico reported:
America’s top intelligence official on Tuesday publicly broke with President Donald Trump on several critical foreign policy fronts, saying North Korea is not likely to give up its nuclear weapons, Iran is not yet seeking a nuclear weapon and the Islamic State terrorist group remains a forceful presence in Iraq and Syria.
The remarks by Dan Coats, the U.S. director of national intelligence, underscored how out of step Trump’s pronouncements on major national security issues often are with the rest of the government he leads, including intelligence agencies that he has long scorned.
On Wednesday Iran announced the second consignment of yellowcake uranium to its conversion facility in Isfahan province.
Fars News reported:
Iran on Wednesday dispatched the second cargo of yellowcake produced in Ardakan plant in the Central parts of the country to the Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) in Isfahan province.
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi issued an order to transfer the yellowcake produced in the Ardakan factory, located in the Central province of Yazd, to the UCF in Isfahan.
Iran had on April 20, transferred the first batch of yellowcake (10 tons) to the UCF to mark the country’s National Day of Nuclear Technology. The second cargo which weighs 30 tons was dispatched on Wednesday.
Before issuing an order to send the new consignment, Salehi said that Iran is prepared to increase its production of yellowcake to over 300 tons annually in the next 5 to 6 years.
Yellowcake is a type of uranium concentrate powder obtained from leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. It is a step in the processing of uranium after it has been mined but before fuel fabrication or uranium enrichment.
Time and time again, the media tells us that Trump is stupid and Trump doesn’t understand how the world works. And time after time, Trump takes on the “experts” and generally comes out on top.
Fire Iran Nuke Denialist DNI Dan Coats: “Iran Sends 2nd Consignment of Yellowcake to Uranium Conversion Facility” https://t.co/UOEXB4ys2Z pic.twitter.com/spOJkAc5ei
— Andrew Bostom (@andrewbostom) January 30, 2019