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United States "has Israel's back," and that he will order the U.S. military to destroy Iran's nuclear program if economic sanctions fail to compel Tehran to shelve its nuclear ambitions. In the most extensive interview he has given about the looming Iran crisis, Obama told me earlier this week that
An enormous unconventional arsenal. Syria's chemical weapons stockpile is thought to be massive. One of only eight nations that is not a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention -- an arms control agreement that outlaws the production, possession, and use of chemical weapons -- Syria has a chemical arsenal that includes sev
aeli-Palestinian two-state solution; another to rid Syria of its chemical-weapons arsenal; and the third to achieve an accord with Iran under which Tehran would forego developing nuclear weapons. If Diplomacy Succeeds The opportunity is hard to overstate. Officially ending sixty-five years of Palest
ing a large chemical-weapons arsenal that has been used repeatedly despite international prohibitions would restore the crucial deterrent effect of the Chemical Weapons Convention, undermined by the Syrian regime's lethal chemical munitions attacks on its own civilian neighborhoods. Above all, reliably halting Iran's nuclear
North Korea, which succeeded in building its weapons despite countless rounds of sanctions and U.N. Security Council resolutions. If EFTA00671817 Tehran decides that its security depends on possessing nuclear weapons, sanctions are unlikely to change its mind. The second possible outcome is that Ira
ield." Beyond the intelligence services there is little hard and fast detail on Syria's chemical weapons programme. Unlike Libya, which had signed the Chemical Weapons Convention and was in the process of dismantling its stocks when Muammar Gaddafi's regime collapsed, Syria has not joined the convention and thus has never m
Entities connected to both Tehran and the Chemical Weapons Convention

Barack Obama
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United States
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Damascus
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Prince Charles
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North Korea
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Mohamed Morsi
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Muslim Brotherhood
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Kuwait
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United Nations
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Sarah Ferguson
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Tony Blair
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Jeffrey Goldberg
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