Juno News - Is Iran a nuclear threat？

00:00:00.000 Let's talk about the big elephant in the room, though, with Iran, which is its nuclear program.

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.

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?

Juno News - July 27, 2022