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Big Challenges Remain Despite Progress on Iran - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Iran’s first heavy-water reactor (a potential source of plutonium, another bomb fuel) is nearing completion in the desert. Israel has told American officials it cannot allow this to go into operation.
  • “People have been telling them transparency is not enough,” said Robert Einhorn, formerly one of the State Department’s top Iran nuclear strategists and now at the Brookings Institution. It would not be enough “to see a robust program where there is lots of I.A.E.A. monitoring,” he said, referring to the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. “The monitoring can be terminated suddenly. And once you have a robust program, breakout is relatively quick.”
  • So the issue is not simply getting the Iranians to remove and destroy most of the 18,000 centrifuges; it is also about what kinds of centrifuges Iran would build in the future.
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  • And then comes the hardest question: whether, as part of the deal, Iran will let international inspectors talk with the man the C.I.A. and the West are most worried about, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Considered by the West to be Iran’s equivalent to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, which developed America’s nuclear weapons in the 1940s, Mr. Fakhrizadeh has been hidden away, partly to avoid Israeli assassins.
  • For Mr. Obama, the question will be whether to look forward, hoping to stop the production of nuclear material, or to insist on a detailed excavation of Iran’s nuclear past.
  • The Israeli goal in the negotiations (of which Israel is deeply suspicious) is to make certain Iran’s production capability is so degraded that there would be warning of more than a year or two if it tried to race for a bomb.
  • Israeli and European intelligence agencies believe is a vast Manhattan Project of Iran’s own, buried in the university labs under Mr. Fakhrizadeh’s control.
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Iran, Try Peace or Get War - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • But it’s useful to recall that 10 years ago, Rouhani was a key figure in the Iranian government and a co-contriver of a memo to President Bush much along the lines of the present series of overtures. The memo came at a time when Iran was actually helping the U.S. cause in Afghanistan. Yes, aiding in the war against the Taliban. The missive was passed to Washington through a Swiss diplomat and rejected without even a response by the Bush team. This spurning was also seen by Tehran against the backdrop of President George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech, where he called for regime change in Iran. From then on, it was indeed downhill.
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Obama, Iran's Rouhani Phone Call: How It Happened - Business Insider - 0 views

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  • Here's How The Historic Phone Call Between Obama And Hassan Rouhani Happened
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US-Iran: Breakthrough After Decades of Silence - ABC News - 0 views

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  • House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., criticized Obama for failing to pressure Rouhani on Iran's support for Islamic extremist groups and on human rights issues. He said the U.S. is fooling itself if it thinks that Rouhani, who took office in August after running on a more moderate platform, isn't beholden to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who controls matters of state, including the nuclear program.
  • "It's way too soon to presume either the prospect of an agreement on the nuclear program, which we hope to be able to achieve, but we're quite sober about the potential for that," Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, told CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." She added that "if we could have a peaceful resolution of the nuclear program and an end to Iran's support for terrorism and other behavior that has concerned us over many years, then we could begin a serious discussion about the future."
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Nuclear Nuts & Bolts, Politics Loom Over Iran Talks - Businessweek - 0 views

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  • Heinonen said, “Iran continues to stall in providing substantial answers,” and “what remains to be seen whether a more moderate language leads to concrete results.”
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Skepticism Remains as Iran's Charm Offensive Exits UN Stage - 0 views

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  • But after a meeting of Iran's foreign minister and world powers, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was still skeptical. "Needless to say one meeting and a change in tone, which was welcome, doesn't answer those questions yet and there is a lot of work to be done," said Kerry. Iran's foreign minister called the same meeting constructive while sticking to Tehran's bottom line: "As we move forward, there has to be removal of sanctions, and, in the end game, there has to be a total lifting of all sanctions," said Javad Zarif.
  • Any final decision on either still resides with the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. "He's going to test the waters.  If it works, he wins," said Joe Cirincione, who is with the non-profit Ploughshares Fund. "He shows that diplomacy under his rule has worked.  If it fails, he also wins. His view the U.S. can't be trusted."
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