Hidden Iran by Ray Takeyh

Author:Ray Takeyh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 1866-09-05T05:00:00+00:00

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ALONG THE

NUCLEAR PRECIPICE

The Iranian regime is defying the world with its nuclear ambitions, and the nations of the world must not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons,” proclaimed President Bush in his 2006 State of the Union address.1 As the debate still lingers regarding the vanished Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, yet another proliferation crisis is looming in the Middle East. Washington and much of the international community fear that under the guise of a civilian research program Iran is gradually accumulating the technology and expertise necessary for the construction of nuclear weapons. The question that has bedeviled successive U.S. administrations is how to prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold.2

Why does Iran want the bomb? Has the theocracy settled on its course, or are there contending factions that can still be influenced to temper Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Who are the proponents of the nuclear option within the theocratic regime, and how influential are they in terms of pressing their case? What impact has the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had on Iran’s nuclear deliberations? The answer to these questions requires a better understanding of the interlocking calculations that have propelled Iran toward the nuclear option in the first place.

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