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/ BARAK / 136 of uniformed US personnel. The focus was, of all things, on defense against a missile attack from Iran. I contacted Leon Panetta to see whether we could delay it. The official reason cited by the Americans, when they agreed to do it, did have the merit of being tru...

… anti-missile weapons and, crucially, the challenge which had led me into Bibi’s government in the first place: keeping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. It was a race against time. The Iranians were producing more and more yellowcake, building more advanced centrifuges, accum...

…sponsibility to stay at a time when there remained a real possibility Israel might need to take military action against Iran. To a mix of consternation and anger among many Labor colleagues, I ended up taking what seemed to me the only realistic option. In January 2011, I left th...

…of new, unconventional challenges. One of them, which had come on to Dan Shomron’s and my radar over the past year, was Iran. Though geographically distant, it was potentially the most serious in the longer run, as Dan himself warned Israelis in his final interview as chief of st...

the Holocaust-denying President of Iran.

that would be part of its deterrent strategy. Now who would be opposed to Iran having a

are of course far superior to those of Iran. In

an attack on Iran could produce dynamics that would

Obama made several overtures to Iran in an effort to improve relations. Critics say this engagement strategy went too far during the 2009 Green Movement uprising against the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iran. Subsequently studying in France and Germany

it decides to not to attack Iran's nuclear installations.

Hizballah would expect Iran to assist it and any

to Iran – which under certain circumstances might be the element that ignites or incites ""Hezbollah"" into action.

not just Israel. A nuclear Iran means the end of the non-proliferation regime– Saudi Arabia

but Iran’s efforts to destabilize its neighbors are tireless. As Riyadh fights a cold war with Tehran