It's the nuclear secret that never was that Israel has the only nuclear arsenal in the

Middle East.

Its leaders have never confirmed it, nor never denied it.

But one thing they cop to without hesitation is their total rejection of Iran ever getting

the bomb.

They talk about going to war to stop that from happening because they say that Israel

cannot live with a nuclear Iran or can it?

Yes or no to this statement, Israel can live with a nuclear Iran, a debate from Intelligent

Squared U.S., I'm John Donven, we have four superbly qualified debaters to argue foreign

against this motion, Israel can live with a nuclear Iran.

Our debate as always will go in three rounds and then you the live audience votes to choose

a winner and only one side wins.

Our motion is Israel can live with a nuclear Iran and now let's meet the team arguing

for the motion.

First, let's welcome James Dovins and you are now at Rand where you are Director of International

Security and Defense Policy Center, but in a previous life working with the State Department,

you were at the talks for the conference for the setting up of the State of Afghanistan

after the wake of 9-11, you were involved in negotiations that involved the Iranians and

you said that actually the Iranian delegation was helpful in the process and you know that

that's not really the reputation that the Iranians normally bring to the table.

Well, they were helpful, I think it was sort of a combination of gratitude and fear.

They were grateful that we just knocked off one of their two principal regional rivals,

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