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Gordon Chang says Trump could have made a stronger case around Iranian missile components and enriched uranium, but had not publicly done so.
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Gordon Chang says Trump could have made a stronger case around Iranian missile components and enriched uranium, but had not publicly done so.
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Chang says unknown location and possible enrichment of Iranian uranium support a clear-and-present-danger assessment, even if Trump failed to make that case.
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Chang says Iran cannot be trusted because of JCPOA violations and admitted 60 percent enrichment.
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"I've known Donald Trump 20 years. The reasons for this war seem to have changed on an hourly basis for the last six weeks...."
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"...have done. He just said, well, they have, they want a nuclear weapon. But it was a much more convincing case he could have..."
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"...the premise that this was always about preventing them building a nuclear weapon when the enriched uranium, which is quite a long way advanced..."
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"And then within nine months, we were back again on the same pretext. None of this makes sense to me. Well, if you're talking..."
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"the facts, I do believe that they bear out the clear and present danger assessment that the American government has in fact made. And..."
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"Yeah, I think that's almost certainly true. I mean, Gordon Chang, you know, that paints a pretty rosy picture of the Iranian regime, you..."
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"Is that is that a likely scenario? Yeah, I don't share it. So for instance, with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA..."
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"It wanted a nuclear weapon, absolutely determined to get it, and it would lie and cheat and steal, which it did. What is your..."
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"...safe from the coming end of days, from total war, from nuclear conflict, okay? So that's what the rapture is. And that's what Ilya..."
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"...the most important, is that Russia could put Iran under its nuclear umbrella. And this would negate the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The..."
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"...to destroy the country because you cannot do that, Russia has nuclear weapons. The strategy is to make Putin so unpopular that the elite..."
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"...massive gamble. I understand he wants to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon. I understand the arguments. I just felt like going to war..."
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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