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BTL:Increased Tension Between the West and Iran Risks Unintended Military Confrontation
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Thursday, Dec. 08, 2011 at 6:01 AM
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Interview with Robert Naiman, policy director of the group Just Foreign Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
Increased Tension Between the West and Iran Risks Unintended Military Confrontation
Interview with Robert Naiman, policy director of the group Just Foreign Policy, conducted by Scott Harris
A confluence of recent events has dramatically increased tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and western nations. The early November release of an International Atomic Energy Agency report presenting evidence that Iran had been developing a nuclear warhead over the past decade, while also working toward long-range missile capability, provoked calls for more severe economic sanctions. A massive explosion at an Iranian solid fuel missile testing site on Nov. 12, destroying the facility, has prompted speculation that this blast and another at a uranium conversion facility in Isafahan, could have been the result of a U.S. or Israeli covert sabotage operation. The Nov. 29 Iranian student invasion and trashing of the British embassy in Tehran moved relations between the two nations to the breaking point. The embassy incident was followed by reports on Dec. 4 that Iran had shot down a sophisticated U.S. stealth reconnaissance drone over Iranian airspace.
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