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CHRONIC. The popular uprising in Iran for several months has not dampened the Islamic Republic’s desire to pursue its nuclear program.
Through Gerard Araud
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NOTur attention is so focused on the war in Ukraine that we seem to have forgotten another crisis that could well and truly lead in the coming months to another conflict on our doorstep. It is true that the country in question, Iran of course, has been faced for more than three months now with such demonstrations by its population that they have relegated the nuclear question to the background, which seems quite technocratic alongside the magnificent resistance of the Iranians to a retrograde and oppressive power.
However, not only has one crisis not erased the other, but, in a way, it has made it even more inextricable, even more dangerous. Indeed, the internal tensions facing the regime now make an agreement between the Republic of…