The Evening: IAEA Vote, Iran’s Third Enrichment Site, Warmth of the Sun, and More

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Good Evening,

It's Thursday, June 12th.

IAEA Vote

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency has found Iran in breach of its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, as The Washington Post reports

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Iran Says It Will Open Secret New Enrichment Site

Iran said Thursday it would soon open a third uranium enrichment site, while President Trump said that an Israeli strike on the country “could very well happen,” as the WSJ reports

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Interest Rates

President Trump on Thursday repeated his calls for the Fed to cut borrowing costs by a full percentage point—a measure Trump said would save the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year on its debt, as the FT reports

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Executive Education

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Audio Briefs

CSIS now offers audio versions of our latest analysis. Listen to the latest Critical Questions by CSIS's Gracelin Baskaran and Meredith Schwartz, "Trump Strikes a Deal to Restore Rare Earths Access

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In That Number

290

More than 290 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London crashed minutes after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.

Source: Reuters

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Critical Quote

"Iran's many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran ... constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement."

—UN International Atomic Energy Agency

iDeas Lab

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New satellite imagery analysis indicates the construction of a new uranium enrichment plant at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center

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, which could significantly increase the nation's nuclear arsenal before the end of the decade.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Siddharaj Solanki/Bloomberg/Getty Images.)

Emergency service workers at the crash site of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on June 12, 2025.

Recommended Reading

“Trump Strikes a Deal to Restore Rare Earths Access

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” by CSIS's Gracelin Baskaran and Meredith Schwartz.

This Town Upcoming

On Monday at 9:30

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a.m.

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, the CSIS Korea Chair discusses South Korea's new president and how he will work with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as the two celebrate the 60th anniversary of normalization.

Later on Monday, at 2:00 p.m.

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, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosts a discussion on the current state of U.S. generic medicine supply chains and options to reduce the risk of disruption.

On Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m.

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, the CSIS Korea Chair holds a high-level international conference on the Future of U.S.-Japan-Korea trilateral relations, featuring Senators Mark Kelly, Andy Kim, and Dan Sullivan.

Video

Today, the CSIS Missile Defense Project hosted a fireside chat with Senator Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, on why protecting America's electromagnetic spectrum is critical to U.S. national security. Watch the full video here.

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Podcasts

In the inaugural episode of the new CSIS podcast State of Play, host Will Todman speaks with experts Victor Cha and Max Bergmann about what to expect from the G7 Summit in Canada and the changes needed to make the G7 relevant in the new geopolitical environment.

Listen on Spotify

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& Apple Podcasts

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Smiles

My love's like the warmth of the sun

(Warmth of the sun)

It won't ever die

Everyone has their favorite Beach Boys song. “California Girls,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” and dozens of others can each make the case for the band’s greatest single. I was introduced to the Beach Boys music at an early age in the 1970s. My parents had the Beach Boys “Endless Summer” LP, a 1974 collection of hits from the band's 1962–65 period. To me, this album was magic. The cover is mystical in and of itself. It features an artist’s technicolor rendition of the Wilson brothers framed against a cresting wave with their faces peering through beach flora in the foreground. It was a double album, with five perfect songs on each side. I love every one of these songs. But the one track that absolutely floors me is “The Warmth of the Sun

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,” which Brian Wilson and cousin Mike Love began writing the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination.

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The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed by Lauren Adler, Ava Rose, and the External Relations team.

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