For both Israel and the United States, the Iranian nuclear “clock” is now ticking faster. On August 21, beginning a process that will last about a month, uranium fuel shipped by Russia began to be loaded into the Bushehr reactor. Once completed, this start-up of an Iranian nuclear plant will allegedly be monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
What strategic options will remain available to Jerusalem and Washington? Soon, Israel will begin to deploy Iron Dome, a unique and promising system designed to deal with short-range rocket dangers. But what can now be done about the longer-range and much higher-consequence threats looming from Iran?
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