(Bloomberg) Jeffrey Goldberg - The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, the putative moderate on whose shoulders great American hopes have been placed, is proud of the work he did to advance his country's nuclear program - and also of his efforts to stymie Western attempts to stop that work. In May, shortly before he was elected, Rouhani appeared on state-run IRIB TV: "We halted the nuclear program?" he asked, rhetorically. "We were the ones to complete it! We completed the technology." These are not the words of someone who wants to end Iran's nuclear program. Rouhani's statements sound like those of a man who is proud of the program and believes he may have devised a way to carry it to completion.
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