Avoiding Talk of Another Mideast War

In committee, they worry aloud about Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's prediction that Israel could launch a military assault on Iran as soon as April, and they quiz intelligence officials about reports that Iran will have enough highly enriched uranium to build a bomb by the end of the year. [....

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Published in:National journal (1975) 2012-03
Main Author: Farrell, John Aloysius
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Armed forces
Economic sanctions, American
Forecasts and trends
Foreign policy
Military aspects
Nuclear proliferation
Nuclear weapons
Political aspects
Presidents
Sanctions
Sanctions (International law)
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Summary:In committee, they worry aloud about Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's prediction that Israel could launch a military assault on Iran as soon as April, and they quiz intelligence officials about reports that Iran will have enough highly enriched uranium to build a bomb by the end of the year. [...]the sponsors worry that President Obama or his successor might settle for a deal in which Iranians stop short of assembling a nuclear weapon but retain the "break-out" capability to build one quickly. In a recent article in Foreign Policy magazine, under the headline "How to Beat Obama," Republican super PAC kingpins Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie advised GOP candidates to woo Jewish voters by criticizing Obama's foreign policy as "weak and untrustworthy" on Iran and Israel, and so "reduce the president's support among this key voting bloc in the critical battleground states of Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania."
ISSN:0360-4217
1943-4553