With US focus on Gaza, Iran's nuclear centrifuges keep spinning

Many believe Iran started the Israel-Hamas war to blow up the Israeli-Saudi normalization process. But there is an equally plausible reason Iran may have done this, which is even more consequential.

The Iranians knew that encouraging a war in Gaza would divert Western attention from their nuclear program, allowing them to accelerate their enrichment of uranium unchallenged.

Wanting at nearly any cost to avoid a regional war, the Biden administration stopped Israel from preemptively...