With all eyes on Putin, enter Iran — a conversation in Jerusalem
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor
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🗓️ 20 February 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | there's no question that if they were to enrich uranium to 90% levels, there's no other purpose |
| 0:06.5 | but to obtain a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:08.9 | At 10% to 3.67% to 20%, You could still say maybe science, maybe research, maybe medical reasons. |
| 0:16.6 | 90% there's no other alternative. There's nothing. It's just a nuclear weapon. While the world, while the world is watching every development on the Russia-Ukraine border, the |
| 0:37.8 | U.S. and Iran may be very close to reaching a deal in Iran's nuclear program, and |
| 0:42.3 | this would have staggering geopolitical |
| 0:44.8 | implications for a number of countries, especially the one I'm in right now, |
| 0:48.8 | Israel. While I'm here in Jerusalem I wanted to catch up with Yachov Katz, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post. |
| 0:56.5 | Yachov is also a former advisor to Prime Minister Bennett in one of Bennett's previous stints as a government |
| 1:02.3 | minister when I first got to know him. |
| 1:04.3 | Now how does the increasing likelihood of an agreement between the US and Iran change Israeli calculations? |
| 1:11.6 | Does it increase the possibility of an Israeli military strike? |
| 1:15.0 | What would that mean for Israel? |
| 1:17.0 | For the Arab world and for the broader Middle East? |
| 1:20.0 | And what about for energy markets? |
| 1:22.0 | And with Russia escalating tensions with Ukraine right now, how does that impact the |
| 1:26.6 | emerging crisis with Iran? |
| 1:29.0 | Finally, can we learn anything about Israeli intentions and calculations |
| 1:32.8 | from Israel's strike against Iraq's nuclear program in 1981 and Syria's nuclear |
| 1:38.8 | program in 2007. Lots to consider, lots of discuss. |
| 1:43.1 | Yakov is full of insights and reporting. |
| 1:46.0 | Before becoming editor-in-chief at the Jerusalem Post, he served for a decade as the |
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