S8 Ep652: 1. Iran's Nuclear Status and the NPT Framework Guest: Henry Sokolski Summary: Sokolski analyzes Iranian hardliners' threats to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. He explores the military risks of targeting nuclear sites like Dimona and the strate
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
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1. Iran's Nuclear Status and the NPT Framework Guest: Henry SokolskiSummary: Sokolski analyzes Iranianhardliners' threats to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. He explores the military risks of targeting nuclear sites like Dimona and the strategic complexities of attacking national electric grids. (1)
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| 0:47.2 | I welcome my colleague and friend, Henry Sikolsky, the executive director of the |
| 0:51.0 | Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center. |
| 0:53.6 | The Non-Proliferation Treaty, NPT, created in the Cold War years of the 1960s, in effect |
| 1:01.5 | with all signatories on board in 1970. |
| 1:05.3 | Due for review in these next weeks, the NPT. |
| 1:09.1 | The question to ask is, what does it mean about the Iran war? What does it mean |
| 1:13.7 | about the leadership, whatever it is in Iran? What does it mean about Iran continuing to participate |
| 1:19.9 | in the rules and guidelines of the NPT? Henry, a very good evening to you. Iran has no option except for to agree to inspections |
| 1:31.7 | and to follow the recommendations of the NPT for civilian nuclear power. If it does not, |
| 1:39.1 | if it continues to suspect violate or worse, what is to be done what are the guidelines what is that what are |
| 1:46.5 | the days ahead good evening to you timely question thank you for having me on again it's always a |
| 1:52.9 | privilege to be on your show the Iranian hardliners are speaking up if you thought the previous crew was bad, it could be the current crew is |
| 2:04.4 | worse. They are doubling down on demands that Iran withdraw from the NPT. This was posted in Reuters |
| 2:12.5 | this morning. And, you know, my own organization has long warned about the prospect of this and tried to set up arguments as far back as 2005 for why like-minded nations leading with the United States should make an effort to lay out sanctions that are country neutral for any |
| 2:37.5 | country that is found in violation of its NPT, safeguards, obligations, or other obligations, |
| 2:45.1 | much as Iran was last June by the IEA, if they're in violation, they cannot withdraw and expect not to be |
| 2:55.2 | immediately and automatically sanction until they come back into compliance. Now, this is |
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