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Brazen killings expose Iran’s vulnerabilities

With the killing of their top nuclear scientist, Iranians are grappling with a sense of vulnerability, with hardliners calling for retaliation.

David D. Kirkpatrick, Ronen Bergman and Farnaz Fassihi

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The raid alone was brazen enough. A team of Israeli commandos with high-powered torches blasted their way into a vault of a heavily guarded warehouse deep in Iran and made off before dawn with 5000 pages of top secret papers on the country's nuclear program.

President Hassan Rouhani visits a nuclear plant in 2015 outside Bushehr, Iran. AP

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