In Rejecting the Bahrain Conference, Palestinian Leaders Keep Faith with Their Long-Range Intentions
Neither peace nor prosperity is Mahmoud Abbas’s goal.
July 11, 2019
Iran Never Converted a Key Nuclear-Weapons Site into a Civilian Facility. (But It Did Equip It with Sophisticated Missiles)
Fordow can return to high enrichment at a moment’s notice.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—as the 2015 nuclear deal is formally known—required the Islamic Republic to convert its Fordow uranium-enrichment facility to a “nuclear, physics, and technology center” for international civilian scientific cooperation. Thanks to the cache of documents the Mossad spirited out of Iran last year, there is no longer any doubt that this heavily fortified facility, long kept secret, had been designed for the production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel. Drawing on publicly available information, including satellite images, David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Frank Pabian, and Jack Toole conclude that Tehran had no intention of converting the complex into anything else:
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Iran Never Converted a Key Nuclear-Weapons Site into a Civilian Facility. (But It Did Equip It with Sophisticated Missiles)
Fordow can return to high enrichment at a moment’s notice.
The Many Deceits of Edward Said
And their anti-Israel consequences.
Can Jewish Thought Flourish as Judaism Becomes Increasingly Out of Step with American Culture?
Seven decades of Tradition.
How Batya Gur Created Classic Detective Fiction in an Israeli Key
Tightknit communities as stand-ins for a society at large.