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It’s Time To Get Serious About Iran
Neil Snyder / American Thinker Blog
On CBS’ 60 Minutes yesterday, Lesley Stahl interviewed Meir Dagan, ex-head of Israel’s Mossad. Stahl opened the segment titled “The Spymaster Speaks” by explaining that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu had injected himself into the U.S. presidential election by calling on President Obama to establish “red lines” for Iran to prevent the mullahs in Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. It was a thinly disguised attempt to embarrass Prime Minister Netanyahu and to enhance President Obama’s standing in the eyes of American voters.
During the interview, Dagan said that Iran’s leaders, including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, were “rational,” but he qualified his assessment by explaining that their rationality wasn’t like “Western rationality.” According to Dagan, helping to bring about regime change in Iran is preferable at this juncture to an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. That position puts him at odds with Netanyahu who is preparing the Israeli people and Western leaders for a unilateral Israeli strike on Iran.
Western leaders and Netanyahu agree that Iran’s mullahs can’t be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons, but they don’t agree on the best way to achieve that result. The West missed a great opportunity to help bring about regime change in 2009 when Iranian students protested the results of Iran’s national election. Since then, Western nations led by the United States have used sanctions against Iran to forestall its march toward the atomic bomb, but to no avail. All the while, Iran continues to develop its nuclear capacity and to deny outsiders access to their nuclear facilities. None of this bodes well for peace.
Sorry, this is all theater. The people that control our country are the ones we need to fear.
Well,I don’t know.If Iran doesn’t get nukes then Israel will just keep getting bigger,and then before you know it we will be sending goi’ slaves just like Russia.This article makes me want to send money to Iran,but it did not give an address to send money to.What gives,Rolls?By the way,the President of Iran has no real power in their political structure.He is more like a cheerleader.You might want to do a quick Google search before you call yourself a reporter.
Agree with anonymous about this all being theater. But the article did get one thing right – if we were going to try to change the regime rather than hurt regular Iranian citizens the time to have done that would have been during the massive 2009 uprising that was so violently put down.