?האם בריטניה, צרפת וגרמניה החליטו לפעול ביתר נחישות נגד תוכנית הגרעין האיראנית

Britain, France and Germany are seeking action against Iran ahead of the UN Nuclear Watchdog's board meeting next week. Three diplomats told Reuters the E3 shared a draft resolution with the board and seemed determined to push it forward despite opposition from the U.S. The U.S. and its European partners, known as the E3, are reportedly divided on whether to confront Iran over fears of further escalation in the Middle East. It's been a year and a half since the International Atomic Energy Agency last passed a resolution against Iran. The agency ordered Iran to cooperate with a years-long investigation into possible nuclear activity. That was after it found uranium particles hidden at three undeclared sites. Iran has not explained the traces. The UN Watchdog says Iran has enough uranium for three nuclear bombs if enriched to weapons-grade purity. Joining us live to discuss is Brent Sadler, Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology at the Heritage Foundation's Center for National Security. Welcome, Brent. How concerned should we be here? Well, I mean, there's been concern with Iran's nuclear program for well over a decade. And so the concern is longstanding. And there hasn't really been a solution because the regime in Tehran is, with all intent and purposes, working towards having a deployable nuclear weapons system. And there's many indications of this, the pursuit of highly enriched uranium, the continued stockpiling of uranium, the centrifuges and the weapons and the warheads in which to detonate nuclear weapons. Right. And as we just heard, there's some dispute over how to deal with this, according to diplomats speaking to The Wall Street Journal, for example, the Biden administration is pressing European allies to back off plans to rebuke Iran for its nuclear advances. How effective is such a strategy in containing Iran, would you say? Well, trying to restrain your allies in putting forward a more forceful and stronger negotiating position makes no real sense if the goal is to pressure a regime dead set on producing and deploying a nuclear weapon. It would make a lot more sense to encourage holding Iran to a higher degree of accountability if they truly are interested in negotiations.