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Could The Iran Nuclear Attacks Backfire?

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.2929 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The primary goal of Israeli and American attacks on Iran was to remove the country's "existential" nuclear threat. But what if the attacks have the opposite effect, motivating the Iran to pull of the non-proliferation treaty and resume their nuclear program covertly? In parliament, Iranian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to suspend cooperation with the IAEA. This means that Iran would halt inspections, reporting and oversight activities. Iran always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful. For some perspective, we bring you Christiane's 1995 report on her visit to Iran's earliest nuclear power plant in Bushehr.   Also on today's show: Gary Samore, former White House Coordinator for Arms Control; Elaine Sciolino, author of "Adventures in the Louvre"; Mark Henson, Dir. of Federal Advocacy and Government Affairs, The Trevor Project  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Iran will not have nuclear. What we blew it up is blown up. The kingdom come.

0:13.0

Is Iran out of the nuclear business for good, or could US and Israeli attacks drive the program underground?

0:20.0

Nuclear arms control expert Gary Seymour examines Iran's strategic options.

0:25.6

And...

0:26.6

Well, it's a fortress and I went in like a foreign correspondent, like a war correspondent,

0:30.6

and did battle in this incredible fortress that's still impregnable.

0:35.6

Adventures in the Louvre. Former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Shalino,

0:40.3

takes me behind the scenes of the iconic museum, from its famous glass pyramid to the coveted

0:46.3

Mona Lisa, all explored in her new book.

0:49.3

Then...

0:50.3

Suicide prevention is about people, not about politics.

0:53.3

Harry Srinivasan speaks to charity director Mark Henson about the Trump administration ending funding for a suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ plus youth. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christian Amanpur in London.

1:24.9

The primary goal of Israeli-American attacks on Iran was to remove the country's,

1:29.4

quote, existential nuclear threat. But what if the attacks have the opposite effect,

1:34.7

motivating the Islamic Republic to pull out of the non-proliferation treaty or NPT and resume their

1:41.0

nuclear program covertly? In parliament, Iranian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to

1:47.0

suspend cooperation with the IAEA, that is the UN atomic energy agency that monitors these things.

1:54.4

That would mean Iran halting inspections, reporting and oversight activities. A final decision

1:59.8

on the matter will be made by Supreme

2:01.9

Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. Iran always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful. In fact,

2:08.6

in 1995, I was taken to the earliest reactor, the nuclear power plant in Boucher on the Persian Gulf

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