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Letters: October 12, 2009
10/10/2009 12:00:00 AM
Letters: October 12, 2009
10/10/2009 12:00:00 AM
‘All Options Means All Options’
Lally Weymouth 10/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
Israel has always said that a nuclear Iran poses a threat to its existence. Israel also has believed for some time that Iran is working on creating nuclear weapons and is moving closer to realizing its goal. If, for example, Russia delivers the S-300 antiaircraft system to Iran as it has agreed to do, it would make the possibility of an Israeli air attack on Iran's nuclear facilities difficult, if not impossible. NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth sat down with Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., to find out the Israeli reaction to the Obama administration's talks with Iran last week. Excerpts:
Containing a Nuclear Iran
Fareed Zakaria 10/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
It is time to clarify the debate over Iran and its nuclear program. It's easy to criticize the current course adopted by the United States and its allies, to huff and puff about Iranian mendacity, to point out that Russia and China won't agree to tougher measures against Tehran, and to detail the leaks in the sanctions already in place. But what, then, should the United States do? The critics are eager to denounce the administration from the sidelines for being weak but rarely detail what they would do to be "tough." Would they attack Iran today? If not, then what should we do? It is time to put up or shut up on Iran.
Split Over Iran Nukes
Mark Hosenball 10/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
The United States and its allies seem unified in their desire to use diplomacy and the threat of sanctions to press Iran to abandon any nuclear-weapons program it may have. But they appear to differ on whether that program exists or not.
Shopping for a New Policy on Iran
Mark Hosenball 9/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
The Obama administration has accepted a long-awaited Iranian offer to negotiate, but responded skeptically to it. It was "not really responsive to our greatest concern," Iran's nuclear program, says a State Department spokesman. Tehran proposed talks on a range of issues last week but indicated it wouldn't discuss shutting down its uranium-enrichment program. Israel has signaled an end-of-year deadline for military action, but U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice said last week that President Obama would be "taking stock" with permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (plus Germany) later this month.