NEWS FLASH

Former State Dept Spox: ‘The Claim That Israel Will Attack Iran Is Not Credible’ | Over the past few years, various media outlets have been reporting that Israel will likely attack Iran over its nuclear program. Perhaps one of the most well known is Jeffry Goldberg’s cover story in the Atlantic last year reporting that “there is a better than 50 percent chance that Israel will launch a strike by next July.” (Of course that never happened.) Former State Department spokesperson P.J. Crowley joined the fray today on Twitter, saying, “The claim #Israel will attack #Iran soon is not credible. The strategic costs, while not static, still outweigh the prospects of success.” Crowley later tweeted, “The #ArabSpring has sufficiently complicated #Israel’s strategic calculus that it is more likely to show restraint in the immediate term.”