I still have no idea what you are trying, and failing, to say.<p>But I will reply to this line:<p>&gt; Considering how long, say, Iran has been working on concentrating uranium, just how the heck did the first country in the Mideast get the critical materials?<p>I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;ve noticed that technologically Israel is light years ahead of Iran, and on-par or even ahead of the US. They most certainly could have purified the materials themself.