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Three to Five Years, Forever: Thirty Years of the Iranian Nuclear ‘Deadline’ and the Strategic Utility of Perpetual Imminence

For more than three decades, Iran has been portrayed as an imminent and existential threat, perpetually on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. This narrative of impending crisis was firmly established as early as 1992, when Binyamin Netanyahu, then a member of the Israeli Knesset, warned that Iran was…