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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0522/Iran-talks-in-Baghdad-Western-naivete
Iran Talks in Baghdad: Western Naivete
(Christian Science Monitor) Reza Kahlili - It's hard to overestimate the degree of naivete on the part of the West as it heads toward another round of nuclear talks with Iran. Clearly, Iran is stalling for time to develop a nuclear weapon. At the Istanbul talks last month, the West agreed for the first time to Iran's demand that it may enrich uranium, with restrictions - despite UN resolutions to the contrary. The Islamic regime has continuously believed that the more its nuclear program is expanded, the more likely the West will eventually accept a nuclear Iran. Today Iran has enough enriched uranium to eventually make six nuclear bombs. The writer, a former CIA operative in Iran's Revolutionary Guard, teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense's Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy.