Uber think-tanker suggests Iran doesn’t fear American retaliation for its alleged assassination plot because it thinks its nuclear program will deter us.
Iran Alleged Assassination Plot: Emboldened by Nuke Program?
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Iran Nuclear Weapons
The Real Nuclear Threat From Iran May Not Be Nuclear Weapons
Unsafe construction practices may have been used to build Iran’s first nuclear energy facility, Bushehr.
Is It a Mistake to Draw Solace From the Iran Bomb’s Long Gestation Period?
The bomb-Iran crowd draws sustenance from how weak claims that Iran won’t possess nuclear weapons soon makes disarmament advocates look.
Iran Eats Nuclear Scientist Rezaie’s Assassination as the Cost of Doing Business
There’s not much that a smaller power like Iran can do when the West assassinates one of its own except roll with the punches.
Israel and Iran: Partners in Plausible Nuclear Deniability
Those who oppose attacking Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities would better advance their cause by admitting Iran’s likely intention to at least field the capacity to, if not actually build, nuclear weapons.
Whipping Wisps Into Storm Clouds: Iran and the “Alleged Studies”
Why mess with success? We lied our way into war with Iraq — why not Iran, to?
Iran, the New York Times and the Laws of Physics
The Times seems intent on making the case that Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon, when it’s not.
Sanctions Debate Heats Up
With mid-term elections only six months away, many lawmakers are eager to demonstrate their strong support for Israel, which has argued for the adoption of “crippling” sanctions against the Islamic Republic as the only way to halt its alleged effort to acquire nuclear weapons short of a military attack.
Controlling the Bomb
The United States is trying to prevent Iran from acquiring the capacity to make nuclear weapons. This is only the most recent of its seemingly endless series of battles over the past 60 years to control which other countries have access to these weapons. In this time it has failed to understand that as a nuclear-armed superpower it is as much part of the problem as part of the solution. As the Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca explained almost 2000 years ago, “Power over life and death—don’t be proud of it. Whatever they fear from you, you’ll be threatened with.”