Biden gives Israel green light on Iran
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SO THE American vice president gives Israel the green light to deal militarily with Iran’s nuclear weapons program (“Biden says Israel can set own course on Iran nuclear threat,’’ Page A5, July 6). And he does so without a reference to Israel’s own, far more advanced stockpile of nukes and delivery systems.
True, Joe Biden is only voicing plainly what has been the US non-policy for many years; but now Israel’s new militaristic government may well act and attack, secure in the knowledge that Iran cannot strike back - at Israel, that is.
What Iran can do in a matter of hours, however, is shut down all exports of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, and destroy extracting and shipping facilities, sending fuel prices sky-high at a time when Western economies are already struggling.
This is certainly not Biden’s first “oops,’’ but it may be the one with the gravest consequences.
Stephen Green, Berlin, Vt.
The writer, a retired UN official, is an author who has written on the Middle East.
