Talking up an attack on Tehran
Iran policy circles are alight with reactions to an article by Jeffrey Goldberg in this month's Atlantic that reaches a worrying conclusion: there is a more than 50% chance of an Israeli strike on Iran within the next year. Despite the provocative conclusions reached in this piece, conversation about this possibility is far from new.
Whether by intention or not, Goldberg's article dovetails neatly with a campaign by American war hawks and neoconservatives to push for, if not an American military strike on Iran, an Israeli one. Last month, Reuel Marc Gerecht wrote that an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would jolt pro-democracy forces into action, threatening a regime otherwise bent on an obsessive (not to mention, suicidal) quest for Israel's destruction.… Seguir leyendo »