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From the Iranian government’s perspective, right-wing Likud policies targeting Iran make achieving its own arsenal of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons as quickly as possible an urgent matter of survival. From an American standpoint, the U.S. cannot engage or even credibly threaten Tehran with international isolation unless America first tackles “strategic ambiguity” in Tel Aviv and Washington. Lifting the rhetorical smoke of “strategic ambiguity” reveals the vast differences between U.S. and Israeli policy objectives in the region.