US hawks belie Iran’s “existential threat” to Israel
Electronic Intifada - 1 Jul 2008
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rWASHINGTON (IPS) – New arguments by analysts close to Israeli thinking in favor of US strikes against Iran cite evidence of Iranian military weakness in relation to the US and Israel and even raise doubts that Iran is rushing to obtain such weapons at all. The new arguments contradict Israel’s official argument that it faces an “existential threat” from an Islamic extremist Iranian regime determined to get nuclear weapons.