By Lawrence J. Haas

McClatchy Newspapers

Feb. 16, 2012

By giving Israel advanced bunker-busting bombs and refueling capacity - as a bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel of the Bipartisan Policy Center recently recommended - the United States will both restore some of its own credibility and give Israel the resources to cripple Iran's scattered and well-protected facilities.

At worst, Israel could slow Iran's nuclear pursuit, providing some additional time for Iranians to overthrow their hated regime, and hopefully replace it with a far less dangerous one, before it's too late.

At best, a U.S. transfer of the higher-grade weaponry to Israel will convince Iranian leaders that, along with Tehran's nuclear program, the regime's own survival may be at stake and that it should finally change course.

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Foreign Policy Project, Iran Initiative