Booker: Iran’s Leader Had Fatwa Against Nukes Until Trump Blew Things Up, They Still Have Enriched Uranium

May 29, 2026
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Cory Booker’s latest talking point—that a long-standing Iranian fatwa against nuclear weapons held until Donald Trump supposedly “blew things up”—ignores the inconvenient fact that Tehran has been steadily enriching uranium well beyond any civilian need for years, regardless of who occupies the White House. The regime’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade material didn’t materialize overnight in 2017; it was the predictable result of a theocratic system that views nuclear capability as both a deterrent and a bargaining chip. For Second Amendment advocates, the lesson is straightforward: when governments disarm their own citizens while foreign adversaries race toward the bomb, the only reliable backstop is an armed populace that refuses to outsource its security to paper promises or multilateral wishful thinking. The deeper irony is that the same political class now wringing its hands over Iranian centrifuges has spent decades pushing policies that treat American gun owners as the real threat. While Booker and his allies lament the erosion of a clerical decree that was never binding in the first place, they continue to champion restrictions that would leave law-abiding citizens outgunned by cartels, street gangs, and, potentially, rogue states that decide to share their technology with non-state actors. History shows that regimes willing to cheat on nuclear non-proliferation agreements are equally willing to arm proxies; an American citizen stripped of effective self-defense tools would then face both domestic crime and the downstream consequences of failed foreign policy. Ultimately, the 2A community understands that deterrence begins at home. A nation that cannot trust its own people with the means of self-defense is poorly positioned to lecture others about proliferation. Whether the threat is a mullah with a fatwa or a bureaucrat with a ban list, the principle remains the same: rights that depend on the goodwill of distant capitals are not rights at all—they are privileges subject to revocation the moment the political winds shift.

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The deeper irony is that the same political class now wringing its hands over Iranian centrifuges has spent decades pushing policies that treat American gun owners as the real threat. While Booker and his allies lament the erosion of a clerical decree that was never binding in the first place, they continue to champion restrictions that would leave law-abiding citizens outgunned by cartels, street gangs, and, potentially, rogue states that decide to share their technology with non-state actors. History shows that regimes willing to cheat on nuclear non-proliferation agreements are equally willing to arm proxies; an American citizen stripped of effective self-defense tools would then face both domestic crime and the downstream consequences of failed foreign policy.

Ultimately, the 2A community understands that deterrence begins at home. A nation that cannot trust its own people with the means of self-defense is poorly positioned to lecture others about proliferation. Whether the threat is a mullah with a fatwa or a bureaucrat with a ban list, the principle remains the same: rights that depend on the goodwill of distant capitals are not rights at all—they are privileges subject to revocation the moment the political winds shift.

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