What Israel Needs to Stop Iran’s Nuclear-Weapons Program
It will have to execute a complex operation—and then defend itself from Hizballah’s retaliation.
October 25, 2021
It will have to execute a complex operation—and then defend itself from Hizballah’s retaliation.
If sanctions, diplomacy, and covert sabotage fail to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons, it will be up to the IDF to do the job—as America will be unlikely to attack Iran, and the Gulf states lack the ability to do so. But it is not clear that the Jewish state has the necessary armaments. John Hannah writes:
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