https://globalsecurityreview.com/nuclear-iran-a-strategic-culture-perspective/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:26:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://globalsecurityreview.com/nuclear-iran-a-strategic-culture-perspective/#comment-212 Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:26:34 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=27724#comment-212 This is an excellent take on what really needs to be done soon to stop the extremist & terror sponsoring regime in Iran from acquiring deliverable nuclear weapons. The article rightly says that various negotiations and sanctions have simply not worked, just like they failed utterly against a prevaricating North Korea. Rabidly antisemitic and anti-USA Iran under Ayatollah Khamenei and the IRGC would if nuclear armed present Israel with an existential security problem intolerably worse that America’s Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 — which JFK found intolerable. To count on nuclear deterrence succeeding due to Iranian regime “rationality” (ala Waltz) would be a very grave nay fatal mirror-imaging error. This article argues reasonably that to attack Iran’s key nuclear facilities now is by far the least bad choice, and such a subnuclear conflict would be enough to bring down the current regime in Tehran — without Israel needing to ever launch a retaliatory nuclear second strike.

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