Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

According to Israeli intelligence, more intelligent usually than American intelligence, the clock is ticking on efforts to persuade or force Iran to give up its effort to produce nuclear weapons. Time is running out. According to Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser, Iran is “very close” to crossing the technological threshold that will allow it the capability of enriching uranium at an industrial level. Having mastered the technology, Kuperwasser predicts Iran will be able to manufacture a nuclear device within two or three years. Sanctions alone, Kuperwasser says in a report entitled " Halting Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program: Iranian Vulnerabilities and Western Policy Options ," will not be sufficient to persuade Iran to abandon its program. The sticking point, as always, is Russia. Because Russia is unallied with the United States, sanctions alone would be ineffective, said Kupperwasser. "For significant sanctions to be effective the world needs to at the same time ...