(New York Times) David E. Sanger - Is Iran's leadership really willing to dismantle vast parts of the multibillion-dollar atomic infrastructure it has amassed over the past decade as part of the price for ridding the country of the sanctions that have crippled daily life? On the list is dismantling a multibillion-dollar heavy-water reactor nearing completion at Arak - a potential source of plutonium - and halting production at a deep underground site called Fordo. "Transparency is not enough," said Robert Einhorn, formerly one of the State Department's top Iran nuclear strategists and now at the Brookings Institution. "The monitoring can be terminated suddenly. And once you have a robust program, breakout is relatively quick."
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