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Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an Iran hawk who has advised Congress sanctions policy, said economic modeling showed that Iran currently held sufficient foreign exchange reserves to reach its goal of making a bomb, possibly by July 2014.
"The aim would be to precipitate a massive balance of payments crisis before July 2014," he said.
"Assuming it takes six months for the economic consequences to cascade through the political system and force a political chance, that means by January, 2014 Iran has got to be on the verge of economic collapse, which means essentially we have a year from now."
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