Washington Hawk's Call to Bomb Iran Cites Disastrous 9/11 Playbook

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Ross played a prominent role in Bill Clinton's policy toward Israel and Palestine and later was a special adviser to Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state.
60% : "Wallace loosely quoted Secretary of State Antony Blinken as saying, "There is no doubt that Iran is the primary funder and supporter and patron of Hamas.
56% : "Wonderfully enough, Iran has its own list of organizations it's designated as terrorists, and UANI is on it.
54% : Right now, that is Iran.
54% : "Wallace wrapped up by saying, "Let me send a message to the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] viewers in Iran that might be watching this: I look forward to seeing you hanged from the end of one of your own ropes.
46% : UANI often functions as a sort of research arm for the Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces U.S. sanctions on Iran (and other countries sanctioned by the U.S.).
45% : In 2020, UANI led a push to stop pharmaceutical companies from doing business with Iran at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak.
43% : UANI has released a statement calling "on our government in Washington, together with Israel, and our allies around the world to launch strikes against military and intelligence targets in Iran, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sites, and missile and drone bases, where Iran's proxy and partner network is trained.
40% : In 2018, Iran International hosted a spokesperson for a separatist group within Iran, who praised a terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz.
37% : The UANI statement says the world has failed to "deter Iran."
34% : So the debate of whether Iran was involved in the specific planning of individualized events is irrelevant.
34% : Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina recent stated that "for every Israeli or American hostage executed by Iran, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery.
33% : But this was not a notable success, given that the Taliban, in 2021, defeated the Afghan military set up by the U.S. and its allies, forcing a humiliating evacuation by the U.S.Is this what Wallace is advocating -- an invasion of Iran costing trillions of dollars and ending with exactly the same people in power?
32% : Meanwhile, others in the U.S. political system are also anxious to attack Iran.
31% : "Therefore, Wallace continued, "Whether or not Iran pressed the button to go into Israel is irrelevant.
29% : The name "United Against Nuclear Iran" is something of a misnomer.
29% : Or does he simply want us to bomb Iran?
26% : It all lies at the hands of Iran.
14% : Earlier this week, Mark Wallace, the head of the influential Washington, D.C., think tank United Against Nuclear Iran, called for a "military response" against Iran for Hamas's attack on Israel.

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