(Weekly Standard) Reuel Marc Gerecht - Last week, the Iranian press regurgitated in detail Western reporting on the IAEA's revelations about Iran's nuclear weaponization. The regime wants the Iranian people to know about its progress with nuclear triggers, explosive computer-modeling, and ballistic-missile warheads. The regime is proud of these achievements. Tehran may well think that its public defiance of the IAEA is a crowd pleaser at home, and it probably is with the government's revolutionary base (perhaps 20% of the population). The writer is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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