The Times Turibune – The potential of a nuclear Iran remains one of the greatest threats facing the world right now, said U.S. Sen. Bob Casey on Tuesday, a discussion point he said he heard consistently during his recent 11-day trip to the Middle East.
"If there is one constant theme we heard, it was the theme about the threat posed by the Iranian regime (and its) nuclear program in addition to … the Iranian regime funding terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah," Mr. Casey said Tuesday. During a media conference call, Mr. Casey said if Iran acquired nuclear arms, it would rock the region. "There's real recognition about how destabilizing it would be in the region and frankly well beyond the region if Iran develops nuclear capability."
While Mr. Casey was away – he returned July 11 – the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the U.S., Yousef al-Otaiba, was making headlines of his own back in the United States. He publicly expressed concern about being able to contain Iran, adding: "We cannot live with a nuclear Iran," according to the magazine, "The Atlantic."
The senator spent the 11-day trip touring Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Israel, Palestine's West Bank, Lebanon and Egypt.
