Abe Foxman wants to ramp up the sanctions against Iran and cripple the country. Because of its threat to us, not Israel. Understood?
Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has said that conflict with America is "natural and unavoidable" and ascribes many of Iran’s problems to sinister American plots. Chants of "Death to America" precede the chants of "Death to Israel" at regime-led rallies.
That Iranian missiles cannot yet reach America is irrelevant. If Iran were to attack the U.S. with a nuclear weapon, it would do so with maximum deniability to reduce the chance of retaliation. Intercontinental missiles have clear return addresses, unlike a nuclear bomb onboard a cargo ship that explodes in an American port. Even if Iran dared not attack the U.S., the nuclear proliferation in the Middle East provoked by an Iranian nuclear weapon capacity would increase the odds of a nuclear or radiological attack by Islamic terrorists.
As news reports from December made clear, the U.S. government appreciates this threat, yet we remain vulnerable…
America has the economic and military power to counter Iran and is sufficiently threatened by Iran’s nuclear weapons program to generate the political will to act.
