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Constituency Week
Conciliation Committee
14.07.2010
18:30 - 19:30
The U.S. Perspective on Afghanistan and Iran
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS)
210 Pentonville Road
N19JT London, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 7340 4520
Fax: +44 20 7340 4521
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18:30 - 19:30
The U.S. Perspective on Afghanistan and Iran
The Henry Jackson Society (HJS)
210 Pentonville Road
N19JT London, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 7340 4520
Fax: +44 20 7340 4521
Link to the organizer
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Foreign & Security Policy
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House of Commons, Committee Room 8
London
United Kingdom
London
United Kingdom
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The challenges America and her allies face vis-à-vis Afghanistan and Iran are some of the most consequential active fault-lines in geopolitics today. With the appointment of General Petraeus by President Obama and Congressional hearings out of the way, political sparring over strategy in Afghanistan – and obvious discord and dysfunctionality in the upper echelons of those responsible for the area in the US administration – can now hopefully give way to the implementation of a ‘surge’ strategy of counterinsurgency. It will be a difficult task that calls for a united and holistic approach to diplomacy, war fighting and reconstruction.
Over the horizon – and indeed next door – looms Iran. The Islamic Regime in Tehran has been nothing if not consistent in its shrewd evasion of the demands of the International Community to end its drive to build a nuclear weapons capability. Though there is now a renewed effort to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions by way of tough diplomacy, given the history of the Western effort and the late stage in the game, few would dispute that a serious crisis looms large – and soon. Aside from the grave danger to peace and stability a fiercely ideological Iran with hegemonic ambitions in the region would pose once emboldened by the possession of a nuclear option, there is also the question of an immense crisis of credibility the US would suffer both regionally and globally, if it was unsuccessful in stopping Iran from acquiring the bomb.
Over the horizon – and indeed next door – looms Iran. The Islamic Regime in Tehran has been nothing if not consistent in its shrewd evasion of the demands of the International Community to end its drive to build a nuclear weapons capability. Though there is now a renewed effort to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions by way of tough diplomacy, given the history of the Western effort and the late stage in the game, few would dispute that a serious crisis looms large – and soon. Aside from the grave danger to peace and stability a fiercely ideological Iran with hegemonic ambitions in the region would pose once emboldened by the possession of a nuclear option, there is also the question of an immense crisis of credibility the US would suffer both regionally and globally, if it was unsuccessful in stopping Iran from acquiring the bomb.
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Nicholas Burns, Gisela Stuart MP, the Henry Jackson Society.
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