Iran and Nuclear Brinksmanship

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Warren Olney

Produced by:

Frances Anderton

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Iran refused to meet yesterday's UN Security Council deadline to stop enriching uranium. The International Atomic Energy Commission says the suspended program was begun again in the past few days. President Bush says, "There must be consequences," but what will they be?

Yesterday, time ran out for Iran to meet the UN Security Council's deadline to stop enriching uranium. President Ahmadinejad says that will never happen. The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that enrichment did, indeed, begin again in the past few days. President Bush says, "There must be consequences." But what will they be? So what does the United Nations do now? What’s the evidence that Iran is using enrichment technology to build a nuclear bomb? Is the case any better than the one against Saddam Hussein? What would economic sanctions look like, and what if diplomacy doesn’t work? (An expanded version of this discussion was originally broadcast earlier today on To the Point.)

Guests:

Helene Cooper: Diplomatic Correspondent, New York Times
Robert Einhorn: Former Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation, State Department
David Kay: former Chief Nuclear Weapons Inspector, IAEA
Abbas Milani-good: Co-Director, Hoover Institution'sIran Democracy Project
Gary Hufbauer: Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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