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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The endgame in the decade-long global confrontation over Iran's nuclear program is arriving. If the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and United States as well as Germany) fail to achieve agreement soon after the U.S. elections in November 2012, a military confrontation between Iran and Israel, and conceivably the United States, may soon materialize. According to recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, if further talks do not produce concrete results by the spring of 2013, Jerusalem will face the decision of whether to exercise a military strike in order to stall the Iranians or to pivot to a containment strategy vis-à-vis Tehran.1 This will, in turn, force Washington to decide whether to approve a military option by Israel, prevent it, or attack Iran itself.
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