November 24, 2014 | Quote

Nuke Talks Confront Deadline, Iran’s Enmity with West


Iran has yet to explain evidence it conducted studies and tests of nuclear detonators, Yukiya Amano, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told his board of governors last week.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, president Hassan Rouhani and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani are the founding fathers of Iran's nuclear weapons program, which they view as a guarantee against external and internal threats, said Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA operative who's now an Iran analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

“The U.S. is asking those three men to forsake their most valued child,” Gerecht said. “If they were to agree to confess to past nuclear weapons research, provide access to scientists, (and) turn over all the paper work, that would certainly suggest Khamenei has given up on his former identity.”

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