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Executive Summary

It appears increasingly likely that the Bush
administration's diplomatic approach to Iran will
fail to prevent Iran from going nuclear and that
the United States will have to decide whether to
use military force to attempt to delay Iran's acquisition
of a nuclear weapons capability. Some analysts
have already been promoting air strikes
against Iran, and the Bush administration has
pointed out repeatedly that the military option is
"on the table." This paper examines the options
available to the United States in the face of a
prospective final diplomatic collapse.

Evaluating the two ultimate options