Wargame sees US sidelining Israel on Iran.
Israel will find itself diplomatically sidelined and militarily muzzled as the United States pursues a nuclear deal with Iran next year, according to a closed-door wargame at Israel’s top strategic think-tank.
Not even a warning shot by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — the simulation featured a commando raid on Iran’s Arak heavy water plant — would shake U.S. President Barack Obama’s insistence on dialogue.
Israel’s arch-foe, meanwhile, will likely keep enriching uranium, perhaps even winning the grudging assent of the West.
I’ve argued that allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons might serve the cause of regional stability by deterring those who are provoked by weakness.
