Article;Iran has left international weapons inspectors stunned over the past two weeks as it suddenly moved virtually all of its underground nuclear stockpile to an above-ground plant, and now the international community is struggling to determine what the country might be planning.
Administration officials and international experts, according to the New York Times, are considering numerous possibilities. It could be, some say, that the country simply ran out of space for its underground stockpile. But others warn that the Iranian government, which orchestrated a brutal crackdown of demonstrators after last year’s presidential elections, may have more nefarious intentions:
The strangest of the speculations — but the one that is being talked about most — is that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is inviting an attack to unify the country after eight months of street demonstrations that have pitted millions of Iranians against their government. As one senior European diplomat noted Thursday, an Israeli military strike might be the “best thing” for Iran’s leadership, because it would bring Iranians together against a national enemy.
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Administration officials and international experts, according to the New York Times, are considering numerous possibilities. It could be, some say, that the country simply ran out of space for its underground stockpile. But others warn that the Iranian government, which orchestrated a brutal crackdown of demonstrators after last year’s presidential elections, may have more nefarious intentions:
The strangest of the speculations — but the one that is being talked about most — is that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is inviting an attack to unify the country after eight months of street demonstrations that have pitted millions of Iranians against their government. As one senior European diplomat noted Thursday, an Israeli military strike might be the “best thing” for Iran’s leadership, because it would bring Iranians together against a national enemy.
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