TEL AVIV, Israel—Taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities wouldn’t automatically result in war, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Victoria Coates.
“We also very strongly believe, and this is the critical point, a strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities does not result, necessarily, in war,” Coates, who serves as vice president of the think tank’s Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, told The Daily Signal.
The U.S. is engaged in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
Trump knows Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons poses an “existential threat,” first to Israel, “but then also to America,” Coates said, explaining that if Israel is the “‘little Satan‘ and we’re the ‘big’ Satan in [the Iranian] worldview, if…
