Human Wrongs Watch
By Richard Falk* –TRANSCEND
Finally, there is some argumentation in the West supportive of a nuclear free zone for the Middle East. Such thinking is still treated as politically marginal, and hardly audible above the beat of the war drums.
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It also tends to be defensively and pragmatically phrased as in the NY Times article by Shibley Telhami and Steven Kull (1.15.2012) with full disclosure title, “Preventing a Nuclear Iran.”
The article makes a prudential argument against attacking Iran based on prospects of a damaging Iranian retaliation and the inability of an attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear program at an acceptable cost. The most that could be achieved for would be a short delay in Iran’s acquisition of weaponry, and maybe not even that.
An attack seems likely to create irresistible pressure in Iran to everything possible to obtain a nuclear option with a renewed sense of urgency.
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