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Insider Briefing Webinar: Why Biden Shouldn t Resurrect the Iranian Nuclear Deal (with Mark Dubowitz)
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(February 17, 2021, Toronto, JNS Wire)
Join HonestReporting Canada for our February 2021 Insider Briefing, “Why Biden Shouldn’t Resurrect the Iranian Nuclear Deal,” with guest speaker Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
With a new Biden government pledging to re-enter the Iran deal, what does it mean for Israel, the Middle East & global security?
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb 23, 8pm eastern time
HOW TO JOIN:
Webinar ID: 931 6427 5685
ABOUT MARK DUBOWITZ: Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of FDD, a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan policy institute.
“The group that claimed responsibility for this heinous attack” on the Kurdistan Region’s capital “has a history of claiming assaults on coalition targets in Iraq,” McCaul stated
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NPR in an interview that the attack was outrageous, but added it was too soon to say whether Iran, which has deep ties to Iraq‘s powerful Shiite militia groups, played any role.
“Certainly we’ve seen these attacks in the past,” Mr. Blinken said. “We’ve seen Iraqi militia, Iranian-backed militia in many cases, be responsible. But to date, it’s too early to know who is responsible for this one.”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Tuesday condemned the attack during a telephone call with his Iraqi counterpart, Minister of Defense Jumaah Saadoon.
UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last week confirmed a report that Iran has begun producing uranium metal, a step that violates the parameters of the 2015 deal also known as the JCPOA which lifted sanctions on Iran in return for curbs to its nuclear program.
Non-enriched, uranium metal has little civilian use and is different from enriched uranium, which can be used for nuclear energy.
Iran says it activity is meant to produce fuel for a research reactor. IAEA inspectors confirmed a minutely small volume of 3.6 grams (0.1 ounces) of the substance at an Isfahan facility less than the size of a thimble.