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Over the weekend, news broke of a change in the administration's policy on Afghanistan. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry announced an extension of Iranian nuclear talks. Yet it is the newly announced departure of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that has sucked up most of the news energy today.
There's speculation, naturally, that this was deliberate from the Obama team.
"With so much news drama, they're counting on the media not to discuss the distinctions between direct and indirect sanctions relief and how many Iranian SWUS can fall off the back of a centrifuge," answered Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies — and a critic of many aspects of the administration's approach to Iranian nuclear negotiations — to an e-mailed question. (For more on SWUs from FDD, read on.)
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