{"id":387,"date":"2022-04-27T13:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/?p=387"},"modified":"2022-04-27T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:05:44","slug":"387-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/387-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s nuclear capabilities: “I say it here, it comes out there”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I say it here, it comes out there”\u2014 Reporter Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks),Broadcast News (1987)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It took six weeks for the Biden administration to admit what I warned on March 9th regarding the Iran breakout window (i.e., that there was high confidence that Iran was just weeks away from being able to develop a primitive nuclear weapon.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That capacity is well inside the old Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) year safety buffer, and essentially makes any attempt to revive it moot.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Why did it take so long? Perhaps to keep the failing JCPOA negotiations on life support? Perhaps to please those who have had their head-in-the-sand (or inserted in other places) about Iran’s nuclear programs and\/or intentions for years?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Iran nuclear story was a 15 second sound clip from the White House yesterday. Today it’s a one minute read on Reuters. Meanwhile hours are spent on what? Partisans melting down or cheering because Elon again outsmarted the non-elite elites to buy Twitter?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We collectively deserve to live in caves..<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“I say it here, it comes out there”\u2014 Reporter Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks),Broadcast News (1987) I wish. It took six weeks for the Biden administration to admit what I warned on March 9th regarding the Iran breakout window (i.e., that there was high confidence that Iran was just weeks away from being able to develop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-bearings-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}