Emanuele Ottolenghi discusses The EU and Iran's Nuclear File: What Can Be Done?
Following the release of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program, Emanuele Ottolenghi, director of the Transatlantic Institute, addresses the American Jewish Committee concerning the misinterpretation of the NIE and how the European Union can pressure Iran to suspend their uranium enrichment without resorting to military action.
Bio
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is Executive Director at the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels. He previously taught Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
He holds a degree in Political Science from University of Bologna, Italy, and a Ph.D. in political theory from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1998 he is at Oxford.
His research focuses on Israeli domestic politics, specifically coalition and party politics, and elections, post-Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict (mainly the Oslo era), Europe's new anti-Semitism and European attitudes to the Middle East. He is currently finishing a book on Israel's electoral reforms in the 1990s.
Interesting program. Who to trust on intelligence? All sources seem incompetent these days.
Short of regime change Iranian nuclear weapons are likely inevitable. Thus the relevant question seems to be evaluating changes to the mideast diplomatic landscape and how to prepare.
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