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October 11, 2021
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In his address to the UN General Assembly two weeks ago, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared that “Iran’s nuclear-weapons program is at a critical point” and that “all red lines have been crossed.” This is no mere rhetoric, argues Joab Rosenberg; Tehran’s recent decision to enrich uranium to 60 percent and to begin work converting the substance into a metal bring it is perilously close to having a nuclear bomb. To understand what it might do next, Rosenberg turns to the nuclear program’s history:
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