Mark Dubowitz
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Just one thing.
All right.
22 years of working on Iran, and I got that right.
They have no plutonium route to the bomb under the JCPOA.
Iraq is where they pour concrete into the reactor and shut it down.
And the reason they pour concrete... Under the JCPOA.
Not they, but the Obama administration is right.
Under the JCPOA, poured concrete into the calendria in order to prevent them from using that reactor to reprocess plutonium.
So there's a distinction between Iraq and Boucher.
Scott's exactly right.
Boucher is a reactor, a heavy water reactor provided by the Russians, as I described, for the generation of...
electricity.
It's proliferation proof.
Iraq is the opposite.
It's a heavy water reactor that was built for a plutonium pathway to nuclear weapons, which is exactly why under the JCPOA, they literally had to pour concrete into the middle of it to prevent it from reprocessing plutonium.
So the Obama administration was very clear under the JCPOA, we are going to pour concrete into the Iraq facility, as Scott acknowledged, because we are concerned that Iraq can be used for reprocessing plutonium, for a plutonium pathway to a nuclear weapon.
Can be used, but we don't know if it was used.
I'm happy that there's no indication for your viewers who are interested in not to plug my own podcast.
So I apologize.
But it is a very good podcast.