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Nuclear experts warn Iran’s uranium ‘right’ is a myth, say Trump is right to hold firm
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Amid charged exchanges between President Trump and Iran’s fragmented leadership over the regime’s insistence that it retain its nuclear enrichment system, top experts on Iran’s atomic weapons program support the commander in chief’s ironclad goal to dissolve it.
One of the main sticking points during the intense talks between Tehran and Washington centers on Iran’s claim that the rogue regime has a right to enrich and possess weapons-grade uranium, the material required to build an atomic bomb.
The showdown over enriched uranium might be the core deal-breaker issue when and if the next round of talks to reach a nuclear agreement goes ahead in Pakistan.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baqaei, vehemently rejected Trump’s demand last week on state-controlled television.
«Iran’s enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere under any circumstances,» Baqaei declared.
President Donald Trump signs a proclamation to withdraw from the JCPOA Iran nuclear agreement in the Diplomatic Room at the White House in Washington on May 8, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Trump claimed Iran had agreed to «give us back the nuclear dust that’s way underground.» The President terms Iran’s 440 kilograms of enriched uranium as «nuclear dust» after sustained U.S. military strikes on Iranian sites that store the country’s stockpile of uranium.
«The United States should insist on a permanent ban of Iranian enrichment and its full dismantlement in negotiations. Iran retaining any enrichment infrastructure in anticipation of the end of a moratorium would allow it to cheat as soon as Trump leaves office and resume its path to nuclear weapons,» Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ nonproliferation program, told Fox News Digital.
Jonathan Ruhe, fellow for American strategy at JINSA, echoed Stricker on the importance of abolishing the Iranian enrichment program. He told Fox News Digital, «An acceptable deal would have to embody many of Trump’s stated redlines from his first administration, and from the run-up to last summer’s 12-Day War.
«This means permanent bans on enrichment, reprocessing and weaponization capability and, equally importantly, full verification of Iran’s compliance with these strictures.»
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Heavy weapons, including ballistic missiles, air defense systems and unmanned aerial vehicles, are displayed during the 44th anniversary of the eight-year war with Iraq, known as Holy Defense Week, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 25, 2024. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
President Trump withdrew from President Obama’s widely criticized nuclear deal with Iran, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in 2018.
«In theory, the so-called ‘Iran deal’ was supposed to protect the United States and our allies from the lunacy of an Iranian nuclear bomb, a weapon that will only endanger the survival of the Iranian regime,» Trump said at the time. «In fact, the deal allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium and, over time, reach the brink of a nuclear breakout.»
Ruhe said, «The JCPOA failed to ensure IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspectors could monitor, and account for, the entirety of Iran’s program and its compliance with the deal. This problem has worsened significantly in the decade since, as Iran systematically stonewalled inspectors.
«Iran’s negotiators always drag out talks and avoid giving clear answers. They still think time is on their side, with their blockade hurting the global economy and their missile arsenals being dug out and prepared for renewed conflict. Trump should insist on a definitive response from Tehran and be ready for renewed operations.
IRAN SIGNALS NUCLEAR PROGRESS IN GENEVA AS TRUMP CALLS FOR FULL DISMANTLEMENT
Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attends a demonstration marking Jerusalem Day in Tehran. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
«As a cautionary tale: The Obama team first entered nuclear talks with stringent redlines, but then they let Iran call their bluffs, ignore their deadlines and wear down their demands until we ended up with the JCPOA,» Ruhe said.
Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that obligates it not to enrich uranium for military purposes. However, U.S. and European intelligence reports have documented Iran’s illicit proliferation activities.
Ruhe said, «This regime cynically wants it both ways: They insist the NPT gives the ‘right’ to peaceful enrichment, yet they flout the treaty’s safeguards. By claiming this ‘right,’ they try to make certain core issues non-negotiable. By this logic, they should get to retain enrichment capacity. So, the questions then become how much and what the U.S. has to give in return for this supposed sacrifice by Iran.
«As the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s name indicates, it’s an agreement to prevent proliferation, not to promote nuclear development.»
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Stricker said Rafael Grossi, the head of the IAEA, recently said, «It’s fiction that the NPT specifically mentions ‘enrichment’ in its peaceful uses clause. Moreover, the prevailing legal demand from the U.N. Security Council is that Iran stop enriching and come back into compliance with its nonproliferation obligations.
For nearly 25 years, the IAEA has been unable to conclude that all of Iran’s nuclear material and activities are devoted to peaceful uses.»
She added that «Iran’s enrichment program began through illicit procurements and covert facilities, under a nuclear weapons program that planned to use enriched uranium as fuel. Iran was clearly stockpiling material for an apparent nuclear weapons breakout.»
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BLUE HILL, Maine — He’s been facing one of the roughest stretches of his bid for the U.S. Senate, but Graham Platner on Tuesday captured the Democratic Party’s Senate nomination.
Platner, a military combat veteran and oyster farmer who is backed by progressive champions Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ro Khanna of California, defeated two longshot rivals in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary, the Associated Press reports.
The embattled Platner, who is facing numerous controversies, will now challenge moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who was unopposed for the GOP nomination, in left-leaning Maine in this year’s midterm elections. The race is one of a handful across the country that will determine whether the GOP keeps control of its slim Senate majority.
Platner, who advocates an economically populist agenda as he takes aim at corporate influences and advocates for the working class, also topped two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills in the primary. The governor’s name remained on the ballot even though Mills, who had been backed by longtime Democratic Senate Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm, suspended her bid earlier this spring after significantly trailing Platner in fundraising and polling.
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Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks to an overflow crowd outside a campaign event Sunday, June 7, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)
«We’re going to win in November and we’re going to take power back for the people in this country,» Platner predicted Sunday night, at his final rally ahead of the primary.
Platner has been playing defense the past month, amid multiple controversies. They include inflammatory online comments made on Reddit, a well-publicized and now covered-up tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, recent reports that he exchanged sexually explicit messages with several women while married, and new allegations last week from ex-girlfriends of a history of rape fantasies, heavy drinking and violent episodes. Platner has called the latest allegations of violence untrue.
On Monday, a day before the primary election, a former high-level staffer from the Planter campaign wrote in the Washington Post that Platner «is not someone who would be good for Maine or for the country.»
While the mounting controversies triggered some Democrats in the nation’s capital to question whether Platner was damaged goods, the candidate this past weekend thanked Maine voters for continuing to support him.
«When hurtful things I said on the internet a decade ago came out into the public as I shared my personal journey through PTSD and darkness of recovery and accountability and growth. Maine had my back,» Platner said at a rally Friday not far from his hometown in Down East Maine. «Now, as every single piece of that past and journey gets dug up, litigated, and weaponized, you have my back. And when politically motivated, serious and false accusations are made against me. Maine, you have my back.»
PLATNER TO SUPPORTERS: ‘MAINE, YOU HAVE MY BACK’
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks to supporters at a rally in Bar Harbor, Maine, on June 5, 2026 (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Platner, who has acknowledged his battle with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) from his three tours of duty in the war in Iraq with the Marines and one tour with the Army National Guard in Afghanistan, apologized for his controversial Reddit posts after some of them made headlines last fall soon after he launched his Senate campaign.
And Platner has said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007 while drinking with fellow Marines stationed in Croatia. He said that he covered up the tattoo with a new design after learning last year that it resembled a Nazi symbol. But new allegations from an ex-girlfriend raise questions about Platner’s timeline regarding knowledge of the tattoo.
Khanna, who organized Friday’s rally with Platner, was asked by Fox News Digital whether he’s concerned if the current allegations, and any potential future ones, could sink Platner’s campaign and hurt Democrats’ hopes of winning back the Senate.
«I’m more concerned about making it clear that we’re opposed to misogyny, those relationships were toxic and volatile, there’s no excuse for that,» Khanna said. «I talked to Graham and he says he was at a very dark period, he had come back from two tours of duty in Iraq as an infantryman seeing violence and death. That doesn’t excuse it.»
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But Khanna added that Platner said «he really grew as a person when he came back to Maine and he was an oyster farmer and he found peace and he is ashamed of that period. To me that suggests someone taking accountability and improving their lives and we need that redemption in this country. And I agree with a lot of his economic policies, that we should be taxing the billionaires, we should be focusing on the working class.»
Maine voters Fox News reporters spoke with ahead of the rally were divided on whether Platner’s controversies would impact their opinions of the candidate.
Jeff from Waterboro, Maine said «it’s not a good situation» as he pointed to Platner. «I think it’s somebody who shouldn’t be in the mix. I am a conservative, but he’s just got so much damage, if the Democrats want to have a winner, they’re going to have to find somebody else. He’s not the guy. It’s just too much.»
Ellen from Acton, Maine, who said she is a registered Republican, said, «Is he a perfect person? Heck no.»
But she added, «I think he will go in and do a good job.»
Collins, returning to Maine on Friday after a busy week on Capitol Hill where she reached a milestone by casting her 10,000th consecutive vote in the Senate, was asked by reporters about the latest allegations facing Platner.
«The allegations in the latest story are troubling,» Collins responded. «And I believe that Graham Platner has a lot of questions to answer.»
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine tours a food bank in Harrison, Maine, on May 5, 2026. The food bank was able to expand thanks to federal funding that the senator helped obtain. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
Platner is facing plenty of incoming political fire from Republican groups. A super PAC aligned with Collins has been blasting Platner, running ads spotlighting his multiple controversies.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) charged that Platner is a «fraud.»
«He’s preaching about living a small but decent life growing up in Maine. The truth? Graham Platner is an elitist whose parents sent him to boarding school in Connecticut and bought him a house,» the NRSC wrote.
And the Republican National Committee (RNC) also targeted Platner.
«Graham Platner says his violent and erratic past is being ‘weaponized’ against him. Platner said he would rape someone to show his dominance and ‘rape was about power,’» the RNC research team wrote on X, pointing to the latest allegations against the candidate.
Despite the allegations and the incoming fire from the GOP, no Democratic politicians who have backed Platner have rescinded their endorsements.
«We need to unite and realize that the goal is defeating Susan Collins. And everyone from Schumer to Sanders is unified around that goal,» Khanna told Fox News Digital.
Platner has drawn large crowds and built a healthy fundraising war chest, and Democrats see Maine as a crucial pickup opportunity as they aim to win back the Senate majority.
But beating Collins won’t be easy. Six years ago, public opinion polls indicated the senator was headed to defeat, but Collins defied expectations and won re-election by topping then-Democratic state House Speaker Sara Gideon by nine points.
Collins, a moderate Republican who at times votes against President Donald Trump’s agenda, is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate.
The senator voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, in 2021 soon after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. And early last year she opposed the confirmation of now-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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But she is also remembered for her 2018 vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, which eventually helped the court’s conservative majority overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling which had legalized abortion nationwide.
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En Panamá 10 nuevos pacientes por semana se suman a quienes ya reciben terapia de hemodiálisis
Unos 10 nuevos pacientes por semana se están sumando a los 338 que actualmente reciben terapia de hemodiálisis en la Caja de Seguro Social.
Esta situación ha llevado a la entidad ha tener cinco turnos diarios de hemodiálisis, mediante ajustes operativos que permiten sostener la cobertura del servicio, lo que supera la capacidad de tres a cuatro turnos, que según fuentes de salud “es lo ideal».
Cerca de 150,000 personas en el país presentan algún grado de enfermedad renal crónica, y de este grupo alrededor del 14% padece la variante no tradicional, que afecta sobre todo a trabajadores agrícolas, de la construcción y minería expuestos a condiciones climáticas extremas.
Las provincias de Coclé, Herrera, Los Santos y Veraguas concentran la mayor proporción de casos de enfermedad renal crónica no tradicional.
La enfermedad renal crónica tradicional está vinculada a enfermedades como la hipertensión y la diabetes, mientras que la enfermedad renal crónica no tradicional, también conocida como Nefropatía Endémica Mesoamericana, se asocia a factores ambientales y ocupacionales, como el calor extremo, la deshidratación y la exposición a agroquímicos, de acuerdo con el Ministerio de Salud.
La enfermedad renal crónica tradicional se manifiesta con síntomas de evolución lenta, entre los que se encuentran fatiga, problemas para orinar y debilidad.
En el caso de la enfermedad renal crónica no tradicional, los signos suelen aparecer en etapas avanzadas, lo que hace que la prevención sea fundamental.
Panamá, en conjunto con países de Centroamérica y República Dominicana, desarrolla estrategias conjuntas para enfrentar estas enfermedades, enfocadas en reforzar la docencia comunitaria, la prevención y la detección temprana.
La detección de ambas enfermedades renales se realiza principalmente a través de pruebas de laboratorio, como análisis de sangre y orina, para evaluar la función renal. También se utilizan pruebas de imagen, como el ultrasonido renal, para visualizar los riñones y detectar anomalías; al no presentar síntomas en sus etapas iniciales, la detección temprana a través de pruebas de rutina es crucial.
De acuerdo con los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC), la enfermedad renal crónica suele avanzar lentamente y con pocos síntomas, lo que dificulta su detección temprana. Muchas personas no descubren que la padecen hasta fases avanzadas, cuando requieren diálisis o un trasplante de riñón para sobrevivir.
El Ministerio de Salud detectó un incremento significativo de la enfermedad renal crónica, especialmente en su forma no tradicional, como consecuencia directa de las altas temperaturas y el estrés térmico.
Durante mayo de este año la temperatura promedio en Panamá alcanzó los 37°C (98,6°F), con sensaciones térmicas superiores a 40°C (104°F), según reportes del Instituto de Meteorología e Hidrología de Panamá (IMHPA).
Estas condiciones incrementan el riesgo de insolación, deshidratación y golpes de calor, especialmente entre quienes realizan actividades al aire libre por periodos prolongados.
Por su parte, la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) describe la enfermedad renal crónica como una pérdida gradual de la función renal que no tiene cura, pero cuyo tratamiento busca controlar síntomas, reducir complicaciones y retrasar la progresión de la enfermedad.
Asimismo, el Programa Subregional de la OPS para Centroamérica y República Dominicana (CAM) ha señalado que la enfermedad renal crónica no tradicional es un tema prioritario dentro de la cooperación en salud, promoviendo acciones para mejorar las condiciones laborales, fortalecer la detección temprana, la vigilancia en salud y garantizar una atención integral a las personas afectadas.
Entre los factores de riesgo señalados por las autoridades destacan el trabajo físico intenso en ambientes de calor extremo, la exposición continua al sol, la deshidratación prolongada sin reposición suficiente de líquidos, el consumo excesivo de analgésicos y antiinflamatorios que pueden afectar los riñones, y pertenecer al grupo de adultos jóvenes.
La enfermedad renal crónica no tradicional se presenta de manera progresiva y silenciosa, lo que refuerza la importancia de la prevención.
La OPS incluyó la enfermedad renal crónica no tradicional como tema prioritario en su programa subregional para Centroamérica.
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