The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies The West
Recorded on September 1, 2009
Location: The Heritage Foundation's Allison Auditorium
Dore Gold's stark warning is - that if we stay on the path we're
on - the Ayatollahs will have the bomb. He argues that
diplomatic engagement with Iran has never worked. Iran has
pursued its nuclear ambitions at first in secret and then in
defiance of the United Nations and Western protests - and it will
not be stopped by Western diplomats waving olive branches and
offering promises of aid or threats of sanctions. In The
Rise of Nuclear Iran, Gold confronts one of the most important
foreign policy questions of our time: Will Iran be allowed to
become a nuclear power - and at what cost?
Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,
served as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997
through 1999 and was Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. He has been a diplomatic envoy
to the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, the Persian Gulf states, and the
Palestinian Authority and has been intimately involved in
Arab-Israeli negotiations. He earned his Ph.D. in
International Relations and Middle East Studies from Columbia
University and has written numerous books and articles on the
region.