(New York Times) Bret Stephens - For decades, a succession of American presidents pledged that they were willing to use force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. There are few greater risks to American security than a nuclear Iran. The regime is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. It is ideologically committed to the annihilation of Israel and is currently attacking it with indiscriminate missile fire on civilian targets. It is an ally of North Korea, China and Russia - and supplies many of the drones Russia uses to attack Ukraine. It is developing and fielding thousands of ballistic missiles of increasingly greater reach. Its acquisition of a bomb would set off an arms race in the Middle East. And it has sought to assassinate American citizens on American soil. If all this is not intolerable, what is?
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