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The Nuclear Threat from Iran
[Wall Street Journal] Editorial - Benjamin Netanyahu formally became Israel's prime minister last week, and he could not have been blunter about the strategic challenge ahead: "It is a mark of disgrace for humanity that several decades after the Holocaust the world's response to the calls by Iran's leader to destroy the State of Israel is weak....We cannot afford to take lightly megalomaniac tyrants who threaten to annihilate us." Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted Thursday, "there is a leadership in Israel that is not going to tolerate" a nuclear Iran. Tehran's atomic designs, he said, were a matter of "life or death" for the Jewish state. "The operative word is 'existential'," he said. When we asked Mullen whether Israel was capable of inflicting meaningful damage to Iran's nuclear installations, his answer was a simple "Yes." "I think the Iranians are on a path to building nuclear weapons," he said, adding, "we don't have a lot of time."