The one shifting is you dude. You started this conversation by alleging I called the former Iranian leader a moderate (false). He was objectively someone who called for the ban of nuclear weapons production - and up to his death, he was true to that word. For some reason you are having a difficult time explicitly stating that replacing him with a known worse radical , who HAS NOT called for such a ban, is a bad thing. This discredits your credibility by not being able to acknowledge something so basic
This was the first conversation that you shifted from
Regarding nuclear: It’s not about believing this administration, it’s about being as objective as you can be. The notion should be true that our non partisan intelligence committees (even if the heads of these committees are hacks) funded by hundreds of billions of dollars is going to be superior to google searches. Can build is different than is building.
You are saying enrichment is the only barrier to creating nuclear weapons. Yet they have been enriching for decades and they still don’t have nuclear weapons.
Well, no. 2016-2021 they were not enriching past 3.67%. Before that they had bad centrifuge technology and it took them forever to enrich to 20%(most[possibly all] of the 20% they had for their reactors pre-conversion was bought, not domestically enriched). This changed in the intervening time, they built advanced centrifuges. These were buried, damaged and hopefully destroyed but there is no way to confirm that.
If they're ALL destroyed beyond the possibility of repair, this sets them back, but not as far as you may think because, as I've said 60% HEU is VERY close to weapons grade.
Enrichment is the only major barrier. If you have reason to believe otherwise than tell me the reason.
As for Khomeini calling for a ban of nuclear weapons while enriching to 60%... That's meaningless posturing, using this as evidence that he didn't have nuclear ambitions is just silly. There's no other reason for him to enrich past 3.67%.