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As noted in  the September 2 Talking Points, the hard-line neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is pushing the old neocon meme that the ‘road to Middle East peace runs through’… well, anywhere but Jerusalem. This time, of course, it’s Tehran.
The latest JINSA Report, the organization’s policy e-newsletter, calls Iran the “elephant” in the [...]
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Jeffery Goldberg’s Point of No Return article in September’s Atlantic Monthly continues to stir up debate.
Tom Ricks, Center for a New American Security (CNAS) senior fellow, adds his take to the list of disastrous scenarios which could follow an Israeli attack on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.
On his Foreign Policy blog, The Best Defense, Ricks reflects [...]
Tags: Center for a New American Security, CNAS, Israeli attack, Peter Mansoor, Tom Ricks
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Prompted by the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq (at least in letter, if not in actuality), many of the hawks who pushed hardest for the 2003 invasion are coming out of the woodwork to argue once again that the war was both successful and necessary. While most hawks have restricted their rhetoric [...]
Tags: axis of evil, Daniel Henninger, David Frum, iran, iraq, Iraq War, North Korea, the surge
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Author Hooman Majd, who’s much anticipated second book is due this month, writes today in Foreign Policy that the U.S. sanctions program on Iran isn’t exactly going to plan. This contradicts a central talking point of the Obama administration: that the recent political infighting in Tehran (which has not involved the reform or Green movements) [...]
Tags: Ali Khamenei, Foreign Policy, Hooman Majd, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the BBC yesterday that the West should be prepared to use force against Iran if the Islamic Republic does not give up its alleged nuclear weapons program.
The Guardian, a left-leaning daily in the U.K., says that Blair called a potential Iranian weapons program “wholly unacceptable” and said such [...]
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Brookings fellow Bruce Riedel has an important piece at the National Interest magazine about the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran. Riedel, who advised President Obama in the 2008 campaign and led the Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review last year, evaluates the history of Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly, along with the current threats facing the U.S. [...]
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John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel (CUFI) has just sent out a petition demanding that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the crime of incitement to genocide.
“The next time that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears before an international tribunal, it must not be as an honored guest at [...]
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In advance of tonight’s Oval Office address marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, House Republican leader John Boehner (R-OH) delivered his own speech addressing a wide-ranging set of issues, ranging from the economy to Iran. On Iran, Boehner, who could become Speaker should the GOP take the House in November, warned [...]
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Earlier this week, I noted that Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, both of whom had been scheduled to appear at Pamela Geller’s Sept. 11 rally in Lower Manhattan against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” now appear to be getting cold feet — Gingrich has pulled out entirely, while Bolton will deliver a videotaped message rather [...]
Tags: English Defense League, Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, Park 51, Robert Spencer
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Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS) has sprung to life again — and it’s promoting a U.S. attack on Iran at beyond the scale discussed by any respected analysts.
The “online public diplomacy platform of Israel” is promoting an interview with an “ex-Mossad expert on Iran” conducted by IsraeliGirl, a woman who also happens to be [...]
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