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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/10/16/iran-stalls-centrifuges-spin/
Iran Stalls, Centrifuges Spin
(Washington Post) Jennifer Rubin - The mullahs have offered a freeze on current enrichment for a period of time and a reduction in its existing stockpile in exchange for lifting all sanctions. This leaves Iran with a short "breakout" capacity of a few months. Judging from bipartisan letters and comments before the Geneva meeting, there is a good chance Congress will act. A senior Senate aide involved in previous sanctions legislation told me, "The supreme leader saw nothing but Western weakness in Geneva, and so he's probably feeling pretty good right now about his chances of getting a nuclear weapons capability. That feeling will fade fast because the strength and will of the U.S. Senate is about to send his regime into economic ruin. Most senators are ready to take sanctions to a 10 - now."