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July 29, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/29/cohen-says-fear-of-iran-now-tops-wrath-against-isr/

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense: Fear of Iran Tops Animosity Toward Israel in Middle East

[Washington Times] Nicholas Kralev - Former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, who served in President Clinton's Cabinet from 1997 to 2001, said Tuesday that fears about Iran have replaced animosity toward Israel as the top concern of governments in the Persian Gulf and the broader Middle East. Cohen has made six trips to the Gulf in the past 18 months. "What has changed in the Gulf region from my perspective is that, in all my years in the past, the first thing I'd get was a lecture about Israel....I no longer receive that, and when I go and travel, what I hear is, there is greater fear of Iran than there is animus toward Israel," he said.

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