Debate: How to Deal with a Nuclear Iran?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/25/Resolved_America_Cannot_Tolerate_a_Nuclear_Iran

Foreign relations scholars Karim Sadjadpour, Joshua Muravchik, and Elliot Abrams debate how the United States should respond to an Iranian nuclear weapons program. Sadjapour argues that Iran’s impetus to pursue nuclear weapons can be found in their “sense of insecurity vis-a-vis the United States.” Joshua Muravchik disagrees, stating that “Iran is an immensely aggressive, violent country.”

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Karim Sadjadpour, Elliott Abrams and Joshua Muravchi debate: America cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran and must go to any lengths to prevent it. – Miller Center of Public Affairs

Karim Sadjadpour is the International Crisis Group’s Iran analyst, based in Tehran and Washington DC. He is a regular contributor to BBC World, CNN, National Public Radio, and PBS NewsHour, and has also written in the Washington Post, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and New Republic.

Joshua Muravchik is a visiting scholar at the John Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a former resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of several books, including the upcoming The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East.

Elliott Abrams is the Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations. Abrams is also the Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy (200509).

Duration : 0:4:39


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6 Responses to “Debate: How to Deal with a Nuclear Iran?”

  1. Herrmistermonsieur on February 20th, 2010 at 8:20 am

    The World is going …
    The World is going to be multipolarised soon. That’s why the americans are convulsioning.

  2. Amazing.
    The only …

    Amazing.
    The only nation ever to use nuclear weapons (against civilians on their knees, a country about to fall by conventional methods alone) seems to feel that it can judge other nations too irresponsible to hold the nuclear cards.

  3. obama has …
    obama has paramilitaries inside iran attacking civilians. how would oyu like al keada having an operation in your neighborhood and roaming your streets?

    “operation bugsplat” is our CIA program that calculates how many civilians we kill with each bombing. a business we’ve been in since the 80s when we bombed a civilian jetliner carrying 300 iranians and reagan rewarded our mass-murderer with a medal.

    obama has killed more civilians in a few months than bush did in 8 years. feel safe? no.

  4. You will never see …
    You will never see peace in the middle east.

  5. Yeah, Pre-Columbian …
    Yeah, Pre-Columbian North American Aborigines immersed in darkness.

    Thus an “Enlightening” Genocide reduced an estimated population of 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900.

  6. FREE THE WORLD FROM …
    FREE THE WORLD FROM THE JEWS

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