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… now that the Gulf War had weakened its neighbor and rival, Iraq. We also knew, from our intelligence sources, that the Iranians were making preliminary efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. 241 Yet the most immediate security concerns were right next door. In Lebanon, Hizbollah f...

…dministration must clarify internally when it would take military steps, and these intentions must be made clear to the Iranians. In the same vein, the military option requires a credible negotiating complement, as seen in the early 1990s with Iraq. To legitimize military action...

…s on these critically important issues have been extremely limited. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to assume that the Iranians, like American policymakers in the early stages of developing their nuclear triad doctrine, will think of nuclear weapons as merely "big artillery." Un...

24 East. The Iranians evidently hoped that militancy against the west, above all on behalf of the Palestinians, could counteract the league-of- outsiders aspect of their alliance. For a while, this project appeared to be working. The Iran-created and sponsored Hezbollah movement...

…dministration must clarify internally when it would take military steps, and these intentions must be made clear to the Iranians. In the same vein, the military option requires a credible negotiating complement, as seen in the early 1990s with Iraq. To legitimize military action...

…ashoggi expects very little to materialize from Saudi-Iranian talks. "I'm not optimistic," he told NOW. "The Saudis and Iranians are still far apart. The Iranians must relinquish their expansionism toward the Mediterranean, or we have to give up Syria. And I don't think we can af...

/ 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 operational, political and diplomatic risks fro...

…yers in Israel agreed that we had to be prepared to take military action if there was no alternative way to rein in the Iranians. Ashkenazi’s successor as chief-of-staff, Benny Gantz, had signed off on the attack plan. While the Iranians were getting ever closer to nuclear-weapon...

“So basically, the Iranians are acting like the Israelis — they want peace, and they want to keep the land.” Other analysts, while conceding any progress would be slow, had somewhat more positive forecasts on the Syrian front. [Syria] is a tough one to happen quickly, but at le...

challenge to convince the Iranians that we’re quite serious about the use of force,” he said. “In the first term, the administration didn’t always speak with one voice on this issue. So what Hagel says can make a difference.” Despite his poorly receieved performance at his conf...

challenge to convince the Iranians that we’re quite serious about the use of force,” he said. “In the first term, the administration didn’t always speak with one voice on this issue. So what Hagel says can make a difference.” Despite his poorly receieved performance at his conf...

… a number of years about Iranian efforts to go nuclear. The Mossad had notched up a series of successes in delaying the Iranians from getting there. But they were getting inexorably closer. In fact, when I’d taken over as Defense Minister under Olmert, I formally directed the new...

…ich uranium at two to three times its current rate. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028729 As for the sanctions, they may hurt ordinary Iranians but this regime is famously indifferent to the suffering of its own people. The Ayatollah also doesn't seem to take the Administration's talk about "al...

/ BARAK / 140 program back by years. And even if the Iranians knew it was coming, they’d be able to do nothing to stop it. “Our problem, Mr, President,” I said, “is that we can’t be sure our friend will show up. Since Iran is already very nearly in a zone of immunity against an...

“The moving pictures of Iranians flooding colorfully into the