Obama commented on Monday that new sanctions are necessary for Iran so that Israel will not be placed in a position of danger. Iran has repeatedly threatened to attack Israel with nuclear weapons. In several news clips, the President of Iran can be seen stating that he wishes to wipe Israel off the map.
As the most powerful country in the world, do we have a duty to defend Israel from villains such as Iran? True these tensions between Israel and the middle east run deep but we can’t sit back idly and let Iran make open threats toward our ally while pursuing a nuclear program. In the event that Iran procured nuclear weapons, the first course of action would be to attack Israel. I believe that preemptive action must be taken now. In order to ensure the safety of Israel as well as the rest of our allies, we need to impose harsher ultimatums on Iran. What could these ultimatums be? Your guess is as good as mine. All I am saying is that diplomacy has yielded little cooperation thus far. I don’t believe that we should attack Iran, but rather we need to continue to tighten our sanctions and to show them that we mean business. They have disregarded our economic sanctions as if they were nothing. I believe that soon enough our economic cut off will have an effect on their county. However until that time, further sanctions would act as a catalyst for negotiations between Iran and the United States/ United Nations.
