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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 [...]
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Responses to Jeffrey Goldberg’s article on the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran’s alleged nuclear facilities has taken the blogosphere by storm. One of the individuals to add his voice to the debate is Jack Matlock, a retired U.S. diplomat who served as Ronald Reagan’s hand-chosen ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 until [...]
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News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 24th, 2010:
The Atlantic: Marc Lynch responds to Jeffrey Goldberg’s cover story on the likelihood of an Israeli air strike on Iran. Lynch disagrees with Goldberg’s assertion that a failure for the Obama administration to act militarily will result in an Israeli strike on Iran’s alleged nuclear [...]
Tags: Borzou Daragahi, Bushehr, foundation for defense of democracies, Gerald F. Seib, Green Movement, Iran nuclear, Iran sanctions, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israeli attack, Jeffrey Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, Marc Lynch, Michael Ledeen, Obama, pro-democracy reformists, Ramin Mostaghim, Russia, sanctions-breaking, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal
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News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for August 23rd, 2010:
Reuters: Ramin Mostafavi reports that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a Japanese newspaper on Friday that Iran might be willing to stop higher-grade Uranium enrichment. “We promise to stop enriching uranium to 20 percent purity if we are ensured fuel supply,” [...]
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Israeli expert on strategic affairs Yossi Alpher offers an excellent analysis of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic cover story. Alpher agrees that an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities is a possibility but only if Iran, “…is crossing a “red line” and the timetable for obtaining the capacity to attack Israel with nuclear weapons has [...]
Tags: Americans for Peace Now, IDF, Iran nuclear, Israeli attack, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, Yossi Alpher
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