Joel Rubin, a former assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, said loud voices in Washington were pushing hard for Israeli military strikes on Iran.
In an article published by the Times of Israel, Rubin argued that those voices should be ignored in order to preserve the lives of Israelis and Americans.
Rubin said what he called "war hawks" should stop playing with the lives of Israelis and Americans and give U.S. President Joe Biden space to reach a deal that would prevent Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
Those voices are the same false voices that called on the administration of former US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal before — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — which unleashed Iran to develop its nuclear program, which Rubin believes exposes Israel and the Middle East to nuclear risks.
Despite the sincerity of expectations about the failure of Trump's policy, and the implications for Israeli and American security, the article argues that these erroneous voices are now redoubling their efforts to risk the lives of Israelis in a war that is illegal under international law, according to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi.
Rubin, a Jewish-American politician and U.S. national security expert, noted that Israel is mired in an unprecedented domestic political crisis and faces numerous regional security challenges.
Instead of recognizing these serious challenges and supporting the Biden administration's diplomatic efforts in the region to quietly promote Israel's peace and security, loud voices in Washington are pushing hard for Israeli military strikes on Iran.
Work on Iran's nuclear program, which is no longer monitored, has accelerated at an unprecedented pace since Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear deal, and the Iranian regime is now nearly 12 days away from achieving a nuclear breakthrough.
The former U.S. official concluded that a diplomatic solution that verifiably restricts Iran's nuclear program is urgently needed, adding that "what we don't need are unwise military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities."