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Arsenal of Incentives to Stop Nuclear Iran

posted on 04/18/08

Philip H. Gordon, senior fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on S. 970: The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007, April 8, 2008:

“An Iranian nuclear weapons capability could embolden Iran as a destabilizing regional actor, threaten U.S. interests in the region, and stimulate further nuclear proliferation throughout the Middle East … But I believe the only way to halt or even limit it involves presenting Iran with an enhanced set of incentives and disincentives to change its cost-benefit analysis of the issue.”