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Iran's Nuclear Technology: Is There a Threat of War?
The IAEA says Iran is still working on nuclear weapons technology. Also, voters' mixed messages on Obama's re-election prospects, and sexual abuse and football at Penn State.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe UN's International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran is still working on nuclear weapons technology. Will Israel launch a pre-emptive attack? Should the US be more assertive? Is diplomacy possible without new sanctions that might threaten Iran's central bank? Also voters in swing states send mixed message on President Obama's re-election prospects, and Penn State's football coach Joe Paterno won't face any charges, but sexual abuse by a former subordinate may have ended his storied career.
Banner image: A view of the water facility at Arak on January 15, 2011. Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi told a group of foreign diplomat visiting the plant that Iran is pursuing its uranium enrichment work 'very strongly.' Photo by Hamid Foroutan/AFP/Getty Images
