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Krauthammer’s Take

From Thursday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the revelation by an Iranian dissident group of a secret centrifuge production facility outside Tehran:

That’s why Iran in two ways has been the big beneficiary of this unrest. Number one, the West has taken its eye off the ball because what’s happening among the Arabs is unprecedented, extremely important, and this story [another Iranian secret nuclear facility] is going to get a lot less attention than it should.

But it’s extremely important, because even though it’s unsurprising, it’s alarming. It tells you that the Iranians are hell-bent on acquiring a nuke even though they’ve had a lot of difficulties, including the virus, the computer virus introduced that delayed a little the program. It’s now on track. It’s developing all these components to spin the uranium into weapons-grade material.

The second advantage is that a lot of the regimes that are toppling were regimes that were staunchly anti-Iranian, starting with Egypt. You’ve got Hamas now with a friend in Egypt, sort of allowing it a lot of activity — which is why we’re seeing attacks on Israel. We had the former prime minister of Lebanon … accusing Iran of taking over his country, arming Hezbollah.

So Iran is using the unrest, the weakening of the anti-Iranian autocrats in that region, to stir the pro-Iranian elements.

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