Iran's weakened hard-liners crave a US attack
Christian Science Monitor, February 6, 2007
by Larry Diamond (Senior Fellow), Abbas Milani (Research Fellow), Michael McFaul (Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow).
From the rhetoric of President Bush to his dispatch of Patriot air-defense systems and a second carrier battle group to the Persian Gulf, there are growing signs that the Bush administration is showing its willingness to solve the Iranian nuclear crisis with a preemptive military attack...