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Was there any good news from the Persian Gulf last week? Well, Israeli hawks should be heartened by Tehran’s threat to target U.S. military bases in the Middle East, in the event of a unilateral Israeli air strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. If true, this would assure American involvement in the military conflict on Israel’s side from the word go, which would no doubt remove a major concern for the Israeli military and intelligence community. It should make a pre-emptive strike more, rather than less, likely.