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The author is the senior counselor in Centerview, President Emeritus to the Council of foreign relations and a former US diplomat
So far, the initiative of the latest conflicts in the middle of the East is all Israel. This is the government of Israel who decided to make a war of choice, a deterrent to attack nuclear nuclear threatening imposed by Iran. Israel leads the airspace in Iran, which destroys or injures many nuclear-related facilities, and further humiliation in Iranian attacks and abilities of Israel’s attacks.
But after a week, Israel’s warfare may have reached its limit: Israel alone cannot achieve two main goals. The end of the Nuclear Iran program at the immediate term requires military capabilities without Israel. And the history of the region strongly suggests that the regime’s transformation is through the power of Iran is not easy and cannot cause the desired result.
The next thing that happens is to rely on two more principal principles in this conflict: the US and Iran.
US policy so far is out of contrast. Washington was against the military action in Israel before accepting the credit claim for it. It gave Israel in arms and helped defending it from revenge but did not associate with the offensive actions of Israel. It makes a course of a diplomatic settlement, conducting five rounds of talks with Iranian officers, and then stopped. Now President Donald Trump begs Iran unconditional surrender.
Currently the Trump administration is describing if the US should attack the underground under Iranian, which can only enter large, heavy bombs brought by the B-2 bombs, which is not available to Israel.
There are some relevant history here. In early 1990s, Bill Clinton administration was considered nuclear in North Korea if it was weak and before these stages. In the end, the US holds, fearing that such an attack may prompt the Second War in Korea, one that results in ten, thousands of casualties in South Korea and Americans. This is a comprehensive decision, but there is a significant longer cost. Now, North Korea has many nuclear weapons with intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver it to the US mainland.
The attack of a US attack in Iran cannot be compared, Iran cannot do more against Israel than. But Iran will attack 40,000 US forces set up in the whole region. Tehran can also expand in war, which has been selected recently developed relationship with the Gulf of the Gulf and attack of the world regional residents.
An American strike on the Fordlo can weaken international behavior against preventing military attacks, a Russian object, China and North Korea may choose to imitate. It reduces America’s ability to effectively respond to military challenges elsewhere. It is more likely to align with the US a deep unpopular Prime Minister of Israel whose Gaza policies and the occupied by West Bank are angry with most of the world. And it’s far from some US attacks to succeed if success is defined as destroying all the rest of the nuclear in Iran.
But the consent of the Fordow to survive is more likely that Iran will be in charge of the easiest to make nuclear weapons, something that can be seen causing its destruction in the present crisis.
Only Israel can be slow, but uncontrollable, this result. And if a nuclear armed Iran arose, it has an existing threat to Israel and another. This is also a better position to maintain regional support proxies. And an Iranian nuclear weapon will also encourage many other countries in the region to follow the suit, which put the Middle East in a dangerous hair trigger.
There is no easy option without a resistance. The best course of action for Trump today is to give Iran a chance to receive a diplomacy deal. Such a suggestion should be that Iran agrees to surrender all uranium development, eliminating centrifrodnggehes and other informed elements of the nuclear program of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Such an offer will include relief for Iran from economic penalties, a withdrawal of the threat of US attacks on a regional conservation of consortium tied to nuclear strength, non-weapon.
Iran can accept it. After all, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini agreed to agree to an end to Iraq’s war in the 1989 revolution with Islamic life. Khomeini compares this decision to drink poison.
The time soon approaches when his successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, should also be swallowed.
