Hello and welcome to Background Briefing available 247 at Background Briefing.

I'm Ian Masters and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with a leaked report from the Defense Intelligence Agency,

contradicting Trump and HECS's bombastic claims of total obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites,

with an assessment that Iran's nuclear program has only been set back a month or two,

assuming that Iran still has enough

centrifuges and the 400 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, do they now have an incentive

to covertly sprint to a bomb? Joining us to discuss whether we are worse off now and whether

there is a diplomatic exit is Jennifer Kavanaugh, a senior

fellow and director of military analysis at defense priorities where her research focuses

on U.S. national security and defense policy.

Previously, she was a senior fellow in the American statecraft program at the Canadian

Downfield International Peace and

is now a professor at Georgetown University Center for Security Studies.

We'll discuss her article at Foreign Affairs, The Real Obstacles to Peace with Iran.

Credible assurances are the key to countering Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Then we'll speak with Joseph Serenciani, Vice Chair of the Board of the Center for

International Policy and a National Security Analyst and author with over 35 years of experience

working in Washington, D.C. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Nuclear Nightmares,

securing the world before it is too late, and bomb scare, the history and

future of nuclear weapons. He also worked for over nine years on the professional staff

of the Armed Services Committee and the Government Operations Committee in the U.S. House of

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