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Barbara Slavin Speaks at the Middle East Insitute on Iran

April 18, 2012
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On April 18, Barbara Slavin, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and member of the Iran Task Force, spoke at a Middle East Institute event on Iran and how best to address its nuclear ambitions. Featured speaker Georgetown University professor Paul Pillar argued that the acceptable range of opinion on Iran has narrowed around the idea that all options, including a military strike, must be pursued to prevent the country from acquiring nuclear weapons. And yet, if the combination of nuclear talks and sanctions do not yield the outcome the West and Israel seek, containment is preferable to war. A war with Iran, Pillar believes, could be worse than the conjectured consequences of an Iranian bomb. Ms. Slavin responded by posing the question of whether President Obama's position precludes a containment strategy or is part of an attempt to dissuade Iran from actually building a nuclear weapon.

 

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