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Why Deterrence Against Iran Is a Bad Idea

by Eldar Mamedov
In the November-December 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs, prominent American scholar Michael Mandelbaum argues that in order to deter Iran from going nuclear, the agreement reached by P5+1 should be supplemented by an explicit threat of US military action.  Mandelbaum proposes that the Obama administration or any future US government “publicly articulate and resolutely communicate” such a threat to Tehran. In addition, to make such a threat credible, the administration should increase the deployment of US forces in the Persian Gulf region and step up the scope and intensity of military exercises there with its allies.
Following such an advice would do a great disservice to the US foreign policy. It would risk destroying the nuclear agreement with Iran— the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—and undermine American interests in a number of other ways.http://lobelog.com/why-deterrence-against-iran-is-a-bad-idea/#more-32261