I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.

Ross returned briefly to academia in the 1980s serving as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior from 1984-1986. His Jewish mother and Catholic stepfather raised him in a non-religious atmosphere. intervention in "the Persian Gulf Region because of our need for Persian Gulf oil and because events in the Persian Gulf affect the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Ross (born November 26 1948) is an American diplomat and author. Bush the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia (which includes Iran) to the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H.