HEADLINE: Iran's Nuclear Enrichment Debate and the Saudi-Pakistan Weapons Deal GUEST NAME: Henry Sokolski SUMMARY: Henry Sokolski analyzes Iran's claim of an NPT right to enrichment. He also warns about a new, unacknowledged arrangement potentially givin
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Iran's Nuclear Enrichment Debate and the Saudi-Pakistan Weapons Deal
GUEST NAME: Henry Sokolski
SUMMARY: Henry Sokolski analyzes Iran's claim of an NPT right to enrichment. He also warns about a new, unacknowledged arrangement potentially giving Saudi Arabia access to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
1850 TEHRAN
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:36.8 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. I welcome my colleague, Henry Sikolsky, |
| 0:38.8 | the executive director of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center. We go immediately to the Tehran Times, |
| 0:45.2 | dateline September 14, 2025. The headline, enrichment under the NPT, JCPOA, and UNSR 2231. |
| 0:57.5 | Subhead, a legal and political reassessment in light of recent developments. |
| 1:01.8 | That would be the B-2 raid on Fordo and other attacks made by Israel and the United States |
| 1:08.5 | against the suspect nuclear weapons program in the Islamic |
| 1:12.7 | Republic. This paragraph of the report. In their August 15, 2025 article in the bulletin of |
| 1:20.9 | the atomic scientist titled, Actually, the NPT doesn't guarantee a right to make nuclear fuel, |
| 1:27.7 | Henry Sikolsky, who's listening to me, and Sharon Squassone, contend that no such right exists, |
| 1:35.4 | emphasizing historical opposition by nuclear weapon states, and the proliferation risk inherent |
| 1:41.4 | in fuel cycle activities. |
| 1:43.9 | They, meaning Henry and Sharon, argue that the NPT's text lacks explicit endorsement of |
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