It’s time to give Israel the means to take out Iranian nukes

Representatives Grace Meng (D-Queens) and Lee Zeldin (R-LI) penned this op-ed. They’re both members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

NEW YORK POST
By Grace Meng and Lee Zeldin
May 17, 2015

The negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have engendered furious debate in Washington and in capitals across the world. But there are steps outside of the nuclear talks that President Obama can take to help ensure that the United States and its allies are stronger and more secure the day after a deal than they were the day before. One such step would be to provide Israel with GBU-57 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs (known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs) and the means to carry them, in a quantity sufficient to destroy Iran’s most deeply buried nuclear sites. At present, Israel possesses US-supplied 5,000-pound bunker-buster bombs. But experts doubt these bombs could seriously impede Iran’s nuclear development. On the other hand, there is little doubt that MOPs, which Israel lacks, are capable of destroying Iran’s nuclear sites. READ MORE

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