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  • Israel Confronts Iran: Rationales, Responses and Fallouts

    Israel Confronts Iran: Rationales, Responses and Fallouts

    This study examines Israel's changing perception of Iran and the underlying reasons for the current Israeli tension, anxiety, verbal acrimony and fears. In deconstructing Israel's fears vis-à-vis Iran, the study looks at Israel's failures to revisit its erstwhile peripheral diplomacy and to make adequate changes.

    2012

    Iran in the Israeli Calculus

    Israel is likely to calculate that it would better to wait and use diplomacy to push the major global and regional powers towards some kind of a joint venture against the much feared nuclear designs of Iran.

    March 13, 2012

    Karun Mukherji asked: Is Israel planning to attack Iran? Very little is known about Tehran's military capability. Does it have the ability to strike back?

    Arvind Gupta replies: It seems unlikely that Israel will attack Iran at the present moment. An Israeli attack on Iran will open an entirely new front for the US and complicate matters at a time when it wishes to extricate itself from Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel falls within the striking range of Iranian missiles. Iran can also block the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt oil supplies from the Persian Gulf.

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