August 28, 2013     Permalink syria, iran, foreign policy Submitted by Michael Dewey

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So, for those of you just now joining us, Iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon 10 years ago. That is the unanimous judgment expressed by all U.S. intelligence agencies "with high confidence" in 2007, and has been revalidated every year since. Thus, Israel's aim can be seen as "regime change" in Tehran, not the halting of a nuclear weapons program that stopped 10 years ago. (It should be noted, too, that Israel possesses a sophisticated and undeclared nuclear arsenal that President Obama and other U.S. leaders have politely refused to acknowledge publicly.)