Comment and Opinion
Times of Israel: On Iran, the world’s efforts sadly ‘have not been successful’, by Haviv Rettig Gur
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“The Iranian nuclear program’s “known unknowns” are many: from the precise state of Tehran’s nuclear know-how to the reliability of Western intelligence assessments, from the innate difficulties in calculating an opponent’s perception of political risk to the unpredictable results of military intervention.
Yet while the details are complicated, in many ways the fundamental questions at the heart of the years-long standoff with the Islamic Republic are simple. Can Tehran be dissuaded from pursuing a nuclear weapon? Does the West have the political will to stop the program by force if the Iranians cannot be convinced to do so peacefully?”