Robert Baer and Victor Davis Hanson: A Nuclear Iran - 1/4

Does Iran possess the ability to produce nuclear weapons? Both Bob Baer and Victor Hanson agree that it does. On the questions that flow from this assertion, agreement is more difficult to find. What does Iran hope to accomplish by developing the bomb? Can the United States live with a nuclear Iran? Can Israel? Israeli Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh in an October interview asserted "If no crippling sanctions are in place by Christmas, Israel will strike...if we are left alone, we will act alone."

Does Israel possess the ability to destroy the Iranian nuclear program?

With each month bringing another deception and diversion from Iran, what can the United States do to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East?

A classicist and military historian, Victor Davis Hanson is Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He is the author of many books, including A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. Robert Baer spent twenty years in the Central Intelligence Agency as a field officer covering the Middle East. Mr. Baer is now a journalist and author. His latest book is The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.

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[RPFS2008]

@givinitsome

Silly comment.

[givinitsome]

Why on earth is Robert Baer on Hoover?!?! He's a fanatical communist and Mullocracy-lover, ever read The Devil We Know??

Very poor bit of oversight there guys...

[Marduniya]

@supruzr True, Israel does not intend to rule Iran (it would love to place a pro-Israel government within Iran), but it does intend to attack Iran.

You are damn right Iran finances Hezbollah. And it will continue to do so against Israeli aggression against Lebanon.

[Marduniya]

@supruzr Please prove to me the Iranian government has said "We will wipe Israel off the map". In fact, Iran has never threatened Israel with war, but rather states that if it is attacked by Israel, it would respond with force. It is always Israel who claims the "military option" is always on the table. It's not Iran supporting Jundullah. It's not Iran supporting PKK and PJAK. It's not Iran supporting the MKO. It's not Iran killing Palestinians and Lebanese by the tens of thousands.

[danielkachal]

@supruzr don't make mistake Iranian do not terror , they have enough power to fight directly (Hezbollah) ( Idiot Arabs are terrorist who inf act don't have power) .t's all jews' money which goes to USA army .. Who said Israel doesn't hire terrorists? there are too many terrorist groups which attack iranian people( PKK from KURDS and Jondolah form Baluches) and both are supported by jews and USA.. who said iran want to make empire ? its jews who are occupying lands from Palestinians,

[supruzr]

@danielkachal

A nuclear Iran is a larger threat than a nuclear Israel, because Israel doesn't consistently say that it won't rest until Iran is wiped off the map. Israel has no ambitions to rule Iran. It's not Israelis hiring suicide bombers to destroy embassies. It's not Israel trying to build an empire that covers the whole Middle East. It's not Israel destabilizing post-war Iraq. It's not Israel financing Hezbollah.

[danielkachal]

what do they Know about Ethnic groups of Iran ??? there are too many Azeris in revolutionary guard .. even Khamenei ( leader) is Azeri..so then irans problem is solved (persian and azeriz are75% ) the only problem for iran are Kurds who are 5%... BTW in all history of Iran Persians and all others have worked with each other...even the first empire was made by Persian and Medians...The name Persia has never used by Iranian.. nuclear iran is the same threat as what nuclear Israel is to iran

[sniffysmooth]

around 2:20, very good question!