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Op-Ed Contributors - Lifting Iran’s Nuclear Veil - NYTimes.com

A precise assessment of Iran’s capability to enrich weapons-grade uranium in light of the discovery of the centrifuge facility at Qom. Bad news, my friends, if Iran’s obfuscation is allowed to continue. In the worst case (yet realistic, by some projections) scenario, Iran could have 5 nukes after the following 7 months. The possibility of other secret enrichment plants scattered all around Iran is quite high. Obama’s intelligence people better get cracking at tracing the secret sources of uranium trickling into Iran, so they can be shut down. Without this critical intel, the upcoming “talks” with Iran will prove yet another in a long string of “West gets duped by Iranian tactics” headlines. The margin for error right now is miniscule. Needless to say, crushing sanctions and a complete air, sea and land blockade of Iran is damn well the only thing that would work to stop Iran’s drive to nuclear weapons, short of all-out war.