As Iran s nuclear program has developed, the Bush administration appeared to draw a red line: a nuclear weapons-capable Islamic Republic would be unacceptable. On August 8, 2004, for example, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told NBC News
The anti-hijab protests that erupted in Iran after the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by the country's "morality police" for violating the Islamic nation's conservative dress code, are now spreading across the globe. Let us take a look at what these protests have revealed.
Kamal Kharrazi, Iran's former foreign minister who now is a senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader, finally acknowledged the obvious: Iran has sought the technical ability to build a nuclear bomb.