Juno News - July 27, 2022


Is Iran a nuclear threat？


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1 minute

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281

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In this episode, I talk about Iran's nuclear ambitions and how the world should respond to the growing threat of a nuclear Iran. Iran has long been a country that has wanted nuclear weapons, and the question is, does it actually have them?

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00:00:00.000 Let's talk about the big elephant in the room, though, with Iran, which is its nuclear program. 0.96
00:00:05.000 This has been a big part of the West's interactions with Iran.
00:00:08.300 You may remember the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA, that Barack Obama's
00:00:14.400 administration put forward with a number of European countries, gave Iran money, just
00:00:19.840 boatloads of cash, literally cash being dropped into the country, lifted sanctions, and the
00:00:26.520 exchange was that Iran had to give up its nuclear program.
00:00:30.540 And there has been, to this day, a lot of dispute about whether it actually did that.
00:00:34.840 In fact, the MEK and some other intelligence analysts, especially from the United States,
00:00:39.220 have said no, they actually kept running secret programs, secret nuclear development that was
00:00:44.320 not for its civil energy needs, but was in fact for nuclear weapons.
00:00:49.340 And the country has clearly never given up its nuclear ambitions.
00:00:53.480 The Ayatollahs, the new president of Iran, all of them have said continuously that they
00:00:59.600 need a nuclear Iran. 0.96
00:01:01.800 They want it.
00:01:02.580 And there is a question about whether this is just because they want to blow Israel off
00:01:06.600 the map, which is what they have said, or is it just about a deterrent?
00:01:10.240 They want nukes so that no one else blows them off the map.
00:01:14.040 These are some of the big themes and some of the big questions, but I think either way,
00:01:17.600 you have to accept that you're not dealing with an honest broker here.
00:01:20.480 You're not dealing with an honest actor.
00:01:22.780 You're not dealing with a country that is operating in good faith.
00:01:27.160 So how should the world respond to the threat of a nuclear Iran? 0.98