Against striking at Iran

As a late addition to the series of normblog posts last month (see here and follow the links back) sparked by Jeffrey Goldberg's article in the Atlantic, see this column in the New York Times by Reza Aslan and Bernard Avishai. The 'drumbeat must be silenced', they say. 'An Israeli attack on Iran would almost certainly precipitate a devastating regional war with unforeseeable global consequences'. Aslan and Avishai go on to spell out how they see that prospect.