Tony Cordesman in the WSJ:

Iran has acquired North Korean and other nuclear weapons design data through sources like the sales network once led by the former head of Pakistan’s nuclear program, A. Q. Khan. Iran has all of the technology and production and manufacturing capabilities needed for fission weapons.

It has acquired the technology to make the explosives needed for a gun or implosion device, the triggering components, and the neutron initiator and reflectors. It has experimented with machine uranium and plutonium processing.

It has put massive resources into a medium-range missile program that has the range payload to carry nuclear weapons and that makes no sense with conventional warheads. It has also worked on nuclear weapons designs for missile warheads. These capabilities are dispersed in many facilities in many cities and remote areas, and often into many buildings in each facility

We do not believe it is possible to successfully negotiate with this regime for reasons that we and others have stated periodically. The US’s continuing “offer of a serious, meaningful dialogue to resolve this issue” seems feckless — but what do you expect from an administration that repeatedly prefers tyrants to the people they oppress?

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