(Bloomberg-Stars and Stripes) Bobby Ghosh - An attack on what must be Iran's most carefully guarded site would have taken months, even years, of planning and patience, its execution dependent not on the diplomatic docket but on opportunity. This was on the diary long before the delegations booked hotel rooms in Vienna for the resumption of talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. The nuclear program is a giant target on Iran's back, coming less than six months after the assassination of Tehran's top nuclear-weapons expert. Iran's nuclear program exists for the sole purpose of menacing its neighbors. The bigger the program gets, the more threatening it becomes - and the greater the motivation for those it threatens to prevent its completion.
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