The Pentagon has halted shipments of critical US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles are running too low, prompting alarm in Kyiv.

At the end of last week’s Nato summit, Donald Trump hinted that supplies of Patriot missile interceptors were running down because some had been supplied to Israel, though he suggested he would like to help Kyiv.

After a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US president acknowledged that Ukraine did “want to have the anti-missile systems, as they call the Patriots, and we’re going to see if we can make some available”.

But Trump added: “They’re very hard to get. We need them. We were supplying them to Israel,” implying that supporting Israel in its war with Iran – a priority for the Republican administration – had set back its willingness to help Kyiv.

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    On 5 November 2019, Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced that Iran will enrich uranium to 5% at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, adding the country had the capability to enrich uranium to 20% if needed.

    Isna announced it!!! You don’t believe what Iran itself publicly says?

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      Enriched uranium is not a nuclear bomb. You are still just hardlining the war propaganda. This quote directly disproves your claim on its own, when taken with the fact they literally have a religious and political ruling against nuclear bombs, it’s extra laughable.

      5% specifically isn’t even above commercial grade for nuclear reactors.

      20%is the absolute minimum for it to even be considered “high enrichment uranium”. But is most commonly used for research purposes still.

      You need like 90% enrichment to achieve a proper nuclear weapon. Even little boy was 80% enriched and that was basically a prototype.

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          Yes. That’s literally what I said. You’re the one using their admission of having 5% enrichment to claim they were building a bomb and that’s why Israel attacked them (accepting Israels false justification on its face) …did you forget what you’re doing here or do you not know what a nuclear reactor is? (they’re for power).

          The only reason Israel attacked was because Iran started developing an atomic bomb after Trump tore up the agreement.