October 29th, 2007 by Sean

The New York Times today argues against ‘bullying’ Iran with bellicose threats, including the specter of World War III raised by President Bush in a press conference October 17th. “Clear rewards and security guarantees” need to be offered if Iran gives up its nuclear program, the editorial argues.

Martin Kramer posts his contribution to a Commentary symposium organized around Norman Podhoretz‘ new book entitled World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofacism. In the article, Kramer argues that “our Islamist enemies turn every ‘democratic’ opening into their opportunity.”

Meanwhile on an interview with CNN last night, IAEA director Mohamed El Baradei stated that he has seen neither “an active weaponization program” in Iran nor the “nuclear material that can be readily be used into a weapon”, and that “we are far, far away from that stage” of having exhausted all non-military options for engaging with Iran.

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