Serious thought needs to be given to the day after a strike on Iran to avoid its downsides or plan for its consequences.
While India’s attention is focused on the general elections in Pakistan this month, the unfolding contest for the next president of Iran amidst deep divisions with the country’s political elite should be of interest to Delhi.
If Iran were properly managed, it has the size, human capital, and natural resources to be a rising global power, not just a regional power. But Iran’s leadership has prioritized fighting the status-quo world order, rather than trying to rise within it.
Sanctions against Iran aren’t self-executing. They don’t work absent a negotiating strategy to use them with.
Iran could process its entire inventory of 20%-enriched U3O8 to produce UF6 in a matter of a few weeks, the fruit of Iran's cumulative nuclear chemistry R&D and industrial-scale experience over three decades.
Iran’s nuclear program has been marked by enormous financial costs, unpredictable risks, and unclear motivations.
A nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran is by no means inevitable.
A recent proposal suggests that the P5+1 should offer to help Iran convert its inventory of UF6 into uranium metal and process it into fuel plates for the TRR reactor.
The covert history of Iran’s nuclear program is marked by enormous financial costs, unpredictable risks, and unclear motivations.
President Barack Obama should articulate a narrowed framework for the legitimate use of nuclear weapons that the United States believes would be defensible for others to follow as long as nuclear weapons remain.
















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