Where Iran appears
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…naccurate, I said. Especially when his rhetoric was in full flight, and he compared the prospect of a nuclear Iran to a new “Holocaust,” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of Zionism: an state in which Jews were in control of thei...
…eatened by terror, missiles on its northern and southern borders, and now potential nuclear annihilation from Iran, while our main ally, the United States, was under the sway of a President who neither understood nor fundamentally supported...
…nything, they seemed more strongly opposed. Ironically, they now argued that because we’d waited so long, the Iranians were too close to their “window of immunity.” Even some senior members of the military and security establishment, though...
…ack capabilities we also lacked. They had an operational plan which, within a period of hours, could push the Iranian nuclear 425 / BARAK / 140 program back by years. And even if the Iranians knew it was coming, they’d be able to do nothing...
…e things. Yet I did, in a deliberately non-didactic way, raise the issue of our different perspectives on the Iranians’ getting nuclear arms. “You see it in the context of the whole world,” I told the President. “If Iran, in spite of all ou...
…itary engineering, manufacturing, design, invention and high-tech. But the new-order challenge represented by Iran was not just theoretical or academic. Though we had a policy of not commenting on on our own nuclear status, it was widely as...
… Americans I met was that the administration shared our basic goal: to prevent, or at least seriously impair, Iran’s drive to get a nuclear bomb. But they continued to believe that non-military pressure was the best way to do it. The Americ...
…s” remained on the table, I knew from senior administration members that it was extremely unlikely to happen. Iran, meanwhile, had been acquiring thousands more centrifuges, more uranium, and heavier protection around its key sites. And the...
… year. Our discussions would continue, as would our refinement and strengthening of the attack plan. So would Iran’s progress toward its “zone of immunity,” which we now believed would begin late in 2012, a couple of years away. As that poi...
against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Answering it was like a contest of three-dimensional chess, involving both an internal debate among Israel’s political and military leadership and discussions with an Obama administration whose priority re...
6 / BARAK / 131 whether that would even be possible to strike before the Iranians entered their “zone of immunity” – the point at which the amount of damage we could do to their nuclear program would be too negligible to be worth the operat...
…reat. It again involved an enemy state trying to get nuclear weapons. But not Syria. The Islamic theocracy of Iran. We’d been aware for a number of years about Iranian efforts to go nuclear. The Mossad had notched up a series of successes i...
…cause we were facing new threats from enemies for whom talk was not even an option. An increasingly assertive Iran, with nuclear ambitions, was one. But the intifada had also thrown up new Palestinian groups grounded not in nationalism, but...
just the military or the elites. This will lead to a slower evolution toward democracy. On the plus side, slower evolution under a stable government would allow structural changes to take root, fostering effective institutions and greater s...
…ticle 1. The National Interest Which Road Will Egypt Take? Kathryn Alexeeff Article 2. Now Lebanon What Saudi-Iran talks could mean for Lebanon and the region Alex Rowell Article 3. The Economist India's next prime minister: The Modi era be...
… them if we can find the place where our interests overlap. The time has come for him to apply that wisdom to Iran. James Traub is a fellow of the Center on International Cooperation. Article 3. The National An uneasy courtship as Iran and...
…n expert on uranium enrichment, also by a magnet bomb slapped on his car during his morning commute. By then, Iran was trying to strike back. The task of avenging the scientists fell to the sprawling Quds Force’s own covert-operations divis...
…town University and has worked at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center. Article 2. Now Lebanon What Saudi-Iran talks could mean for Lebanon and the region Alex Rowell May 16, 2014 -- In a potentially momentous surprise move that could h...
/ BARAK / 139 worth noting that the conflict remained conventional. Iran was different. Only the most naive observer would exclude the possibility that if the Iranians did get a nuclear weapon, they might use it. And even if they didn’t, th...
…uation in Bahrain and Syria occupied by internal problems, the only country willing and able to do the job is Iran. All eyes are now focused on Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud al-Barazani, who has said he will launch a new initiative to br...
