(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - In response to the Iranian nuclear program, the whole game for decades has been about buying time, kicking the can down the road in the hope that either the regime of the ayatollahs would change, or the Iranian leaders would realize that the price for continuing their nuclear program is just too high. That Iran has been unable to realize its nuclear ambitions up until now - though it has been trying since the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 - is not because of a lack of trying, or because they are any less capable than any of the other countries that have nuclear weapons. Rather, it's because of actions that Israel and others in the West have taken over the years to bar their path. So far, Iran has been kept from reaching its nuclear goals through numerous actions, of which the killing of Fakhrizadeh is just the most recent example. To present the killing of Fakhrizadeh as a move intended simply to make things more complicated for Biden is to fail to fully appreciate the degree to which the Israeli government genuinely believes a nuclear Iran is an existential threat that must be stopped at all costs. Israel is not going to sit idly by and allow what it deems to be an existential threat to develop, regardless of who is the U.S. president.
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