When I talk to Iranians, there seems to be a consensus that Iran needs to have a latent nuclear weapon capability, in other words an option,
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I think the council will react very cautiously, very incrementally. It will take time, but there is no urgency. Iran is still a couple of years from having a nuclear-weapons capability, and there are some pretty significant technical problems.Gary Samore
Iran has worked to curry favor with the Chinese and the Russians for the last 2 12 years because they were trying to build political protection at the IAEA board.
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I think it is an excellent proposal, but I am skeptical that the proposal would be accepted by the Iranian government.
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Over the last two years, Iran's policy has been dominated by the desire to avoid referral to the Security Council, and Iran has been prepared to accept limits on its nuclear program in order to achieve that, ... It does appear that Iran feels it's in a much stronger position.
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The most difficult thing for leaders of the intelligence community is to tell the political leadership that they're really not sure, that they really don't have good information and therefore they're in the realm of guesswork,
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I don't see any choice. Since Iran has broken the political deal it reached with the IAEA board of governors, I think the board has no choice but to send it to New York,
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