Top five shocking discoveries about Iran
Danielle Pletka | The Enterprise Blog
November 07, 2011

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  • Iran believes the United States is a paper tiger. And why wouldn’t it?

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  • Iran loves Obama’s decision to draw down from Iraq as a “golden victory."

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  • The Iranian regime didn’t just really hate George W. Bush. They didn’t really want to negotiate. They really just wanted a nuclear weapon.

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1. Iran is “on the threshold of nuclear capability,” and “has mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon,” getting there with help from Russians, Pakistanis, and North Koreans, the IAEA will report this week. This, despite the fact that U.S. officials have repeatedly insisted that Iran’s program has been harmed and delayed by sanctions.

2. Ahmadinejad still wants to destroy Israel and keeps saying so, though by golly, some insist he never said Israel “should be wiped off the map.

3. Iran believes the United States is a paper tiger. And why wouldn’t it? After threatening to sanction the Iranian central bank in the wake of the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the Obama White House has decided, nah, it won’t bother.

4. Iran loves Obama’s decision to draw down from Iraq as a “golden victory.” We couldn’t agree more.

5. The Iranian regime didn’t just really hate George W. Bush. They didn’t really want to negotiate. They really just wanted a nuclear weapon. And they’ll get it, sooner rather than later.

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  • As a long-time Senate Committee on Foreign Relation senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia, Danielle Pletka was the point person on Middle East, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan issues. As the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, Pletka writes on national security matters with a focus on Iran and weapons proliferation, the Middle East, Syria, Israel and the Arab Spring. She also studies and writes about South Asia: Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.


    Pletka is the co-editor of “Dissent and Reform in the Arab World: Empowering Democrats” (AEI Press, 2008) and the co-author of “Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran” (AEI Press, 2011). Her most recent study, “Iranian influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan,” was published in May 2012. She is currently working on a follow-up report on U.S.–Iranian competitive strategies in the Middle East, to be published in the summer of 2013.


     


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