A hearing to look forward to
The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will be holding a hearing on March 2 on the topic of A Nuclear Iran: Challenges and Responses.
This hearing was originally scheduled for February 15, but was postponed. The committee heard from Secretacy of State Rice on February 15, so maybe that was the only time she could go to the Hill, and the Iran meeting was thus postponed. I don't know for sure.
At this point, scheduled witnesses are:
-The Honorable Ronald F. Lehman, II
Director
Center for Global Security Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
-Dr. Patrick Clawson
Deputy Director for Research
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, DC
This hearing will come four days before the IAEA is scheduled to meet again on the issue of Iran's nuclear program.
Coming up on the discussions at the UN Security Council, this Senate hearing promises to be informative and instructive as to where Congress stands on what to do with Iran.
This hearing was originally scheduled for February 15, but was postponed. The committee heard from Secretacy of State Rice on February 15, so maybe that was the only time she could go to the Hill, and the Iran meeting was thus postponed. I don't know for sure.
At this point, scheduled witnesses are:
-The Honorable Ronald F. Lehman, II
Director
Center for Global Security Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
-Dr. Patrick Clawson
Deputy Director for Research
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Washington, DC
This hearing will come four days before the IAEA is scheduled to meet again on the issue of Iran's nuclear program.
Coming up on the discussions at the UN Security Council, this Senate hearing promises to be informative and instructive as to where Congress stands on what to do with Iran.
2 Comments:
At Mon Feb 27, 01:28:00 PM, C.S. Scott said…
I wonder if the hearings will include testimony from MIT Professor Barry Posen, who is doesn't believe a nuclear armed Iran is "unmanagable".
"...these outcomes are not inevitable, nor are they beyond the capacity of the United States and its allies to defuse. Indeed, while it's seldom a positive thing when a new nuclear power emerges, there is reason to believe that we could readily manage a nuclear Iran."
Isn't this just an intellectual copout to avoid having to make tough decisions? Just declare a nuclear armed Iran managable and call it good. Iran isn't managable now, and I'd have to say that anyone who believed them acquiring nuclear weapons would make them more managable has to do a far better job at explaining that one to me, because I don't see it.
At Mon Feb 27, 03:43:00 PM, Jeff said…
Agreed. It sounds like a punt. And a potentially dangerous one, at that.
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