Why Does the US Want a Nuclear-Armed Iran?
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For all its panic-mongering over the prospect of a nuclear Iran, there's only been a short period over the last quarter century when the panic actually got addressed -- the period of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, aka the "Iran nuclear deal."