Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2010

Serious Play: War Games Explore Options on Iran

Jeffrey White, Loring White

February 2010

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

What if Iran's hardline leadership emerges from the current confrontations at home strengthened and emboldened? If so, the nuclear issue will be back with a vengeance. And three recent war games focused on the Iranian nuclear weapons issue suggest that the prospects for halting the regime's progress toward nuclear weapons are not good.