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	The Iran Attack Plan

drummond1999

9-26-2009 12:54 PM

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iran, israel, nuclear, usa

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Iran's acknowledgement that it is developing a second uranium-enrichment facility does little to dispel the view that the regime is developing a weapons program. Israel must consider not just whether to proceed with a strike against Iran"but how. By Anthony H. Cordesman

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