sawdust
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The problem is that Iran knows how to do the things that you have mentioned, and that you cannot change. There are three significant hurdles that a nation must cross before it can deploy nuclear weapons. One is that it must figure out EXACTLY how to enrich uranium. The next is actually obtaining a sufficient amount of U-235 to make a bomb. The next is figuring out the EXACT method for triggering the release of neutrons at precisely the EXACT moment that a critical mass of uranium is assembled. The first two are certainly the most daunting of the three and Iran knows exactly how to do that and that you cannot change. The third item, while difficult is something that can be done undetected relatively easy and is something someone who is expert at the detonation of explosive devices, along with competent engineers and physicists could accomplish. Therefore the only realistic long term solution is one that attempts to insure that Iran finds it unnecessary to build a bomb and to strictly monitor it's enrichment activities. Otherwise, it is not possible to do it, long term, through military means.
There is another issue. The mullas are nuts and not responsible enough to handle nuclear material. In addition, I don't know if you've flown in from Europe lately but they are checking everyone for radiation because of the possibility of a dirty bomb. Obama should have been on top of this years ago.