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by Lawrence Kadish • June 19, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Pictured: A satellite image from Planet Labs PBC from March 19, 2025, showing the aboveground part of the Fordow nuclear site, in Iran. (Graphic by Clea Peculier, Sabrina Blanchard, Fred Garet, Frederic Bourgeais/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald J. Trump has a problem. If he leaves Iran's major nuclear research and centrifuge sites, such as the Fordow uranium enrichment plant or Natanz, under their protective mountains, the countless centrifuges sheltered there will remain a permanent temptation -- an "attractive nuisance" -- for the Iranian regime to resurrect to terrorize its neighbors with again.

What Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears to want -- and what Iran's regime has said it wants since the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini put it in 1979 – is:

"We shall export our revolution to the whole world. Until the cry 'There is no god but God' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle."
— Quoted on p. 42 of Shireen T. Hunter's The Foreign Policy of Iran: Ideology and Pragmatism (Praeger, 1984).

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