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ir defense Major Story (8/10) August 23, 2026 at 01:08 AM

Iran's Security Chief Says a Nuclear Bomb Beats an F-35. Trump Calls Iran 'Denuclearized' Anyway

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Iran's Security Chief Says a Nuclear Bomb Beats an F-35. Trump Calls Iran 'Denuclearized' Anyway
Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Akbar Ahmadian says Tehran values a nuclear bomb more than fighter jets, as prediction markets cut the odds of an enrichment deal from 14% to 10.5%. Meanwhile President Trump is calling Iran's nuclear program essentially finished, and nuclear specialists are telling him that's not true.

Iran's top security official just told the world what Tehran actually wants: a bomb, not more fighter jets.

Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said Iran places greater strategic value on nuclear weapons capability than on conventional hardware like the F-35, according to Crypto Briefing and PrimeXBT. The comment lands as diplomatic efforts to curb Iran's uranium enrichment have made little visible progress.

Prediction markets took notice. Odds of a U.S.-Iran uranium enrichment agreement by December 31 fell from 14% to 10.5% over the past week, according to PrimeXBT.

This reflects a war timeline that started in February 2026, according to PBS. That's not the 2025 U.S.-Israel strikes on Fordow and other Iranian nuclear sites — those happened in June 2025 under Operation Midnight Hammer, according to Fox News and Breitbart's live coverage from that period. The February 2026 conflict is a separate, more recent round of fighting, and a Memorandum of Understanding meant to end that war has now expired with control of the Strait of Hormuz still unresolved, according to CNN.

Trump says denuclearization. Experts say prove it.

President Trump has repeatedly claim

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Crypto BriefingIran prioritizes nuclear bomb over F-35s amid US tensions
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PBSEnriched uranium stockpile undercuts Trump claim of Iran’s ‘essential denuclearization’
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CNNIran’s latest warning to the US signals the hardliners are just getting started
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Breitbart**Livewire** Operation Epic Fury Day Three
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Fox NewsNuclear experts urge Trump not to let Iran steer talks away from regime's atomic threat
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PrimeXBTIran's Ahmadian says nuclear bomb outweighs F-35s as enrichment deal odds slip
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Ground NewsTrump Has Created Nuclear Insecurity Instead of Nuclear Security: Irans Security Council Chief Mohsen Rezaei - The Tribune