Iran Archives - David M. Weinberg

Misplaced global priorities

November 5, 2021

What is truly more urgent: Curbing greenhouse gas emissions or quashing Iran’s nuclear bomb drive?

It is all about Iran

October 29, 2021

Biden is braying about Jerusalem, Palestinians, and settlements mainly to force Bennett into submission regarding Iran.

Kicking the Can Down the Road Again

July 2, 2021

Bennett must beware Biden’s bearhug as the president tries to bunt the Iran nuclear problem to somebody else’s “watch.”

A salute to Netanyahu’s strategic leadership

June 18, 2021

Netanyahu was no saint, and he failed to adequately address several explosive Israeli identity issues. But the former prime minister had a grand strategy for Israel and successfully implemented it, tuning Israel into a regional powerhouse.

The Iran deal, five years later

July 24, 2020

The nuclear deal between the West and Iran has funded Iran’s aggression, rather than buy its moderation. Who will now curb Iran’s aggression and nuclear progress, and how?

It’s Iran, not Israel, Stupid

February 19, 2011

An insidious new mythology is being advanced which replaces the Iranian threat with the “Israeli threat” to Middle East stability. This has the scent of incitement against, and demonization of, Israel. Political attention must be redirected to the place it most urgently belongs: the Iranian contagion that is inflaming the region.

The NIE is Wrong about Iran, Again

February 18, 2011

A new American NIE says that sanctions are causing Iran's leaders to debate whether to move forward with their nuclear bomb program. Israeli analysts disagree.

Snippets from the 2011 Herzliya Conference

February 10, 2011

Should Israel embark on a new diplomatic initiative? Is Israeli-Palestinian peace within reach? Democracy or dictatorship in the Arab world: Which is safer? Does the Obama Administration know what it's doing? Snippets from this year’s Herzliya Conference on the Balance of Israel’s National Security, which ended yesterday.

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