(Strategic Assessment-Institute for National Security Studies) Zaki Shalom - The nuclear agreement with Iran expresses profound, far-reaching worldviews on the U.S.' current manner of functioning. At its core is the recognition that the U.S. military will be asked to fight for extended periods only if there is a definitive and present threat to the United States or its most critical interests. The Obama administration does not seem to view Iranian nuclearization as such a threat. Israel will have to take this reality into account. It means that even if there is evidence that Iran is violating the nuclear agreement and is taking action to attain nuclear capabilities, there is no certainty that the U.S. will be prepared to take military action against Iran to obstruct this trend. Under these circumstances, Israel must internalize that the heavy burden of preventing Iranian nuclearization falls on its shoulders alone. Prof. Zaki Shalom is a senior research fellow at INSS and a senior researcher at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University.
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