JINSA Gemunder Center Iran Strategy Council Report Cited in Washington D.C. and Beyond

The new JINSA-commissioned Iran Strategy Council Report is getting high-level attention in Congress, throughout Washington, and beyond:



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cites the report on September 9 on the Senate floor:

"The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, in an assessment of the nuclear deal with Iran, expanded on the point:

Iran has acquired and developed various capabilities to execute this asymmetric strategy, including anti access/area denial...it possesses the region's largest arsenal of short and medium ballistic missiles, as well as a growing arsenal of cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, to target military and energy installations throughout the Gulf, including U.S. ships. It also has a sizeable fleet of fast attack craft, submarines and large numbers of torpedoes and naval mines for choking off Hormuz and attacking aforementioned targets. The S-300 air defense systems could stymie U.S. air operations around the Gulf, in addition to complicating any strike on Iran's nuclear facilities."

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Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee authors letter on September 9 urging colleagues on Capitol Hill to read the report:

Dear Colleague:

As Congress prepares to consider the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program reached between the P5+1 countries (the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany),  I would like to draw your attention to a recent report by the Iran Strategy Council at JINSA's Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy.  Key conclusions of the report include:    
  • "The JCPOA will not prevent a nuclear Iran. No later than 15 years, the deal's major nuclear restrictions will lapse, Iran will stand on the brink of nuclear weapons capability, and once again the United States will likely have to devote significant resources and attention to keeping Tehran from attaining nuclear weapons.
  • "The JCPOA will enable Iran to increase support for terrorist and insurgent proxies, aggravate sectarian conflict and trigger both nuclear and conventional proliferation cascades. It will provide the expansionist regime in Tehran with access to resources, technology and international arms markets required to bolster offensive military capabilities in the vital Persian Gulf region, acquire long-range ballistic missiles and develop other major weapons systems.
  • "Our long-standing allies feel betrayed - even angry - with the JCPOA, seeing it as a weakening of U.S. security guarantees and reversal of decades of U.S. regional security policy. The mere fact that such perceptions persist, regardless of their veracity, will undermine U.S. credibility, threatening to turn them into a self-fulfilling prophecy."
I highly recommend that you review the other contents and conclusions of this report prior to House consideration of the JCPOA. 

Sincerely,

EDWARD R. ROYCE 
Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee



Iran Strategy Council Co-Chair Gen. Wald and Member Adm. Bird Testify before the House Foreign Relations Committee on September 9:

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney cites the report in a speech on September 8 at the American Enterprise Institute:

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Our Iran Strategy Council Report has also been cited in various Washington D.C. publications as well as national and international publications:




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