The Secret Push to Strike Iran

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For almost two decades, the United States and Israel have tried to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Israeli leaders — including the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu — have pushed for a military strike on Iran, a prospect that American presidents have long opposed. But a Times investigation reveals a secret history that shows how close the three countries came to war. Guest: Mark Mazzetti, a Washington investigative correspondent for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Interviews with dozens of current and former American, Israeli and European officials over several months reveal the startling details of a narrowly averted war and raise questions about how President Trump will respond.Moving further away from the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran said on Thursday that it had stopped honoring the deal’s limits on research and development.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:02.5	This is The Daily.
0:08.7	Iran's active pursuit of technology
0:11.8	that could lead to nuclear weapons,
0:14.7	threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence
0:19.1	under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.
0:22.9	For almost two decades, the United States and Israel
0:26.6	have tried to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
0:35.4	Israeli prime ministers, including Benjamin Netanyahu,
0:42.5	have pushed for a military strike on Iran
0:45.2	to end the nuclear threat, a prospect long opposed by U.S. presidents
0:50.6	who fear it would drag the U.S. into war.
0:53.6	Today?
0:54.6	In 2010, after two years of negotiations,
0:57.4	that fear helped prompt President Obama
1:00.3	to seek a diplomatic alternative.
1:02.5	A comprehensive long-term deal with Iran
1:05.7	that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
1:08.3	Near-a-ron nuclear deal, a deal so detested by Netanyahu
1:12.9	that he vowed to block it.
1:14.2	This deal doesn't make peace more likely.
1:17.0	It makes war more likely.
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