Iran
Will Israel Attack Iran? by Ronen Bergman, New York Times, January 25, 2012
Will Iran Really Start a War? by Victor Davis Hanson, Defining Ideas, January 11, 2012: “History teaches that the saber rattling of lunatic regimes should be taken seriously.”
Only the U.S. Can Keep the Strait of Hormuz Open by Rear Admiral Terence E. McKnight, USN (ret.), Jewish National Institute of Security Affairs, January 17, 2012
Will Iran Really Start a War? by Victor Davis Hanson, Defining Ideas, January 11, 2012: “History teaches that the saber rattling of lunatic regimes should be taken seriously.”
“I certainly do not see Iran as a threat” by David Harris, Huffington Post, January 8, 2012
Good Arguments All, But Not Good Enough by Evelyn Gordon, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, December 2, 2011
Israel would prefer not to attack Iran: It would rather see Tehran’s nuclear program halted by crippling sanctions, regime change or covert action, and if all these fail, it would prefer military action by an American-led coalition. Nevertheless, if Israel concluded that all other efforts had failed, and that international military action wasn’t in the cards, none of the arguments opponents have raised against an Israeli strike are likely to deter it.
Iran Sees New Opportunity for Regional Domination Despite Turkish Competition by Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 11, No. 15, September 15, 2011
Misreading the Mullahs: Curbing Tehran’s Nuclear Ambitions by Aaron Menenberg, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2011 [PDF]
If Iran Gets the Bomb by Michael Totten, Pajamas Media, October 26, 2010
The Sources of Iranian Negotiating Behavior by Harold Rhode, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 2010 [pdf]
Iran’s Global Terrorist Reach by Walid Phares, inFocus Quarterly, Summer 2010
The Point of No Return by Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, September 2010
The Danger of a Nuclear, Genocidal and Rights-Violating Iran: The Responsibility to Prevent Petition by Irwin Cotler, December 9, 2009
The American-Israeli Disparity Over Iran by Matthew RJ Brodsky, Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2010
The Birth of a Bomb: A History of Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions by Erich Follath and Holger Stark, Der Spiegel, June 17, 2010
The End of Nuclear Diplomacy by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2010
Iran: The Truth Hurts by David Harris, Huffington Post, December 21, 2009
Iran Policy: What Price Failure? by David Harris, Huffington Post, December 11, 2009
End Iran’s Nuclear Dance With Destruction by Donna Brazile, CantonRep.com, December 13, 2009
The Return of Israel’s Existential Dread by Yossi Klein Halevi, Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2009
Bad Options on Iran: An Israeli strike won’t suffice by Michael Rubin, National Review Online, October 5, 2009
It takes much more than talk to stop Iran’s stonewalling by Michael Rubin, New York Daily News, September 30, 2009
Obama Is Pushing Israel Toward War by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2009
Business as usual with Iran? by David Harris, Jerusalem Post blog, September 6, 2009
Sanctions Won’t Work Against Iran by John Bolton, Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2009
New Developments in Iran’s Missile Capabilities: Implications Beyond the Middle East by Uzi Rubin, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 9, No. 7, August 25, 2009
There Is a Military Option on Iran by Chuck Wald, Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2009
A recipe for even more delay on Iran by Anne Bayefsky, Jerusalem Post, August 5, 2009
It’s Crunch Time for Israel on Iran by John Bolton, Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2009
Assessing the Iranian Election by Daniel Pipes, June 14, 2009
Double Standard Watch: Taking a Stand Against Iran by Alan Dershowitz and Irwin Cotler, Jerusalem Post blog, June 10, 2009
Obama in 2012, after he fails to deal with Iran by Ari Shavit, Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2009
Iranian Support of Hamas, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), January 12, 2009
Tehran Is The Obstacle To U.S.-Iran Talks by Michael Rubin, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, November 25, 2008
Iran Reaching Critical Milestone in Nuclear Quest, AIPAC Memo, November 21, 2008
Wishful Thinking and Iran by Steven Rosen, Middle East Forum, November 10, 2008 [includes audio recording]
The United States, Israel, and Iran: Defusing an “Existential” Threat by Chuck Freilich, Arms Control Association, November, 2008
Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained or Deterred? By Michael Rubin, Middle Eastern Outlook, November 5, 2008
The Threat of Iranian Missile Development and Export, The Israel Project, October 2008
Obama or McCain, Iran stance won’t change by Michael Rubin, The Australian, October 3, 2008
Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran by Richard Holbrooke, R. James Woolsey, Dennis B. Ross and Mark D. Wallace, Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2008
Bush’s Disastrous Flip Flop by Michael Rubin, Bitterlemons International, Middle East Forum, August 7, 2008
Iran’s Race for Regional Supremacy: Strategic Implications for the Middle East by Lt.-Gen (ret.) Moshe Yaalon et al., Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2008
Hold Iran Accountable by Irwin Cotler, YNetNews.com, July 22, 2008 Nuclear Disinformation (Extract) by Ehud Ya’ari Jerusalem Post, July 21, 2008
A History of Iran’s Defiance of Nuclear Negotiations, The Israel Project, July 16, 2008
Now Bush Is Appeasing Iran by Michael Rubin, Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2008 [Link for WSJ subscribers]
Using Bombs to Stave off War by Benny Morris, New York Times, July 18, 2008
We only get one strike by Moshe Sharon, Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2008
What Iran really wants by Yoram Kaniuk, YNetNews.com, July 10, 2008
Time for Iran to face more sanctions by Peter D. Zimmerman, Boston Globe, July 6, 2008
Ahmadinejad in his own words, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, June 2008
What Iranian Leaders Really Say about Doing Away with Israel: A Refutation of the Campaign to Excuse Ahmadinejad’s Incitement to Genocide by Joshua Teitelbaum, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, June 2008
Prepare to attack [Iran] by Daniel Pipes, USA Today, June 11, 2008
Iran and the Problem of Evil by Michael Ledeen, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2008
Hillary Clinton’s right to say ‘obliterate’ by Michael Rubin, New York Daily News, May 7, 2008
An Israeli View of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge by Efraim Inbar, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) E-Notes, April 2008
Iran’s Global Ambition by Michael Rubin, AEI Middle Eastern Outlook, March 17, 2008
The Iranian-Israeli War by Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, March 11, 2008
Unintelligence on Iranian Nukes: Appalling gamesmanship at the CIA by Michael Rubin, Weekly Standard, February 25, 2008
Iran Now Free to Achieve Its Military Nuclear Ambitions: An Israeli Perspective on the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate by Maj.-Gen. Aharon Ze’evi Farkash, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 2008
Different Voices, Common Conclusion: Iran is a Threat, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], December 18, 2007
“Top foreign leaders, Democratic and Republican national security experts, and leading editorialists have responded to the recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran with the conclusion that Iran remains a threat that must be thwarted. As Iran continues to advance its uranium enrichment capabilities in defiance of the U.N. Security Council resolutions, it is clear that sanctions must be stepped up to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.”
Misreading the Iran Report: Why Spying and Policymaking Don’t Mix by Henry A. Kissinger, Washington Post, December 13, 2007
“The NIE holds that Iran may be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon by the end of 2009 and, with increasing confidence, more warheads by the period 2010 to 2015. That is virtually the same timeline as was suggested in the 2005 National Intelligence Estimate. ….It is therefore doubtful that the evidence supports the dramatic language of the summary and, even less so, the broad conclusions drawn in much of the public commentary.”
American Intelligence by Claude Moniquet, The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2007:
“U.S. intelligence services have so far failed to predict the nuclearization of a single foreign nation. …. [T]he NIE has little in common with intelligence as it is understood by professionals. Instead, Langley & Co. seem to have decided to carry out their own foreign policy.”
Losing Weight in the Gulf by Thomas L. Friedman New York Times, December 12, 2007:
“The peculiar (obtuse?) way the N.I.E. on Iran was framed has deprived all who favor a negotiated settlement of leverage.”
Stupid Intelligence by Alan M. Dershowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, December 7, 2007
The NIE – Capabilities vs. Intent, JINSA Report #728, December 7, 2007
Keep Up the Pressure by Charles Krauthammer, Time, December 6, 2007
The Flaws In the Iran Report by John R. Bolton, The Washington Post, December 6, 2007
An Insult to Intelligence by Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, December 6, 2007 (reproduced for non-subscribers here )
The thousand volt farce by Melanie Phillips, The Spectator, December 5, 2007
Iran’s nuke news shows danger of trusting this regime by Michael Rubin, New York Daily News, December 5, 2007
National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, The Anti-Defamation League, December 5, 2007
Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities, National Intelligence Estimate, November 2007
Russian Roulette on Iran by Michael Rubin, Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2007
How Iran Could Help End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Robert Zelnick, Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes, October 2007
Ahmadinejad and International Law by Irwin Cotler The Jerusalem Post, October 2, 2007
Value of free speech twisted at Columbia by Amotz Asa-El Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 2, 2007
Normal Craziness: President Ahmadinejad’s relationship with reality is beyond repair, The Times (UK), September 26, 2007:
“Mr Ahmadinejad is no more truthful on his nuclear plans than on homosexuality, women’s rights or the Holocaust, which he has called a myth. [....] Mr Ahmadinejad has shown why the world should be more concerned about his intentions for Iran. He has condemned himself in his own words.”
Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? by Amil Imani, American Thinker, September 24, 2007
Iran and the IAEA, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #701, September 7, 2007
Not too late on Iran (editorial), The Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2007:
“Israel’s message should be that the choice is not between preventing a nuclear Iran or living with that scenario, but between better and worse ways of confronting the Iranian threat.”
Iran on anti-racism committee by Yaakov Lappin, YNetNews, August 23, 2007: Islamic Republic selected by UN for ‘leading position’ to plan anti-racism conference
Iran: Israel the standard bearer of Satan by the Associated Press, YNetNews.com, August 18, 2007: President Ahmadinejad again predicts Jewish state’s demise; meanwhile, Revolutionary Guards threaten to ‘punch’ United States
Deciphering Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Revisionism by George Michael, Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2007
Stopping Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: The Case for Targeted Sanctions, American Jewish Committee, June 2007
The Global Range of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program by Uzi Rubin, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 5, No. 26, June 20, 2006
