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¹³⁷ Joshua Hersh, «Iran Assassination Plot: Skeptics Question Motive and Method of an ‘Amateur Hour’ Scheme», Huffington Post, October 12, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/iran-assassination-plot-skeptics_n_1008068.html.

¹³⁸ Susanne Maloney, «Obama’s Counterproductive New Iran Sanctions», Foreign Affairs, January 5, 2012. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137011/suzanne-maloney/obamas-counterproductive-new-iran-sanctions.

¹³⁹ Высказывание бывшего иранского дипломата, цит. по: Steve Inskeep, «Iran’s Decider: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei», National Public Radio, February 23, 2012, http://www.npr.org/2012/02/23/147277389/meet-irans-decider-supreme-leader-khamenei.

¹⁴⁰ «Text of Obama’s Speech to AIPAC», Associated Press, March 4, 2012, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioftJOjiGfowjv-eLtNgGAVnxphA?docId=1d833bbc98324e338a99fbeccb38b763.

¹⁴¹ Ollie Heinonen, «The 20 Percent Solution», Foreign Policy, January 11, 2012, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/11/the_20_percent_soluyion.

¹⁴² Richard Haas, «Enough Is Enough», Newsweek, January 22, 2010, http://www.thedailybeast.com/nesweek/2010/01/21/enough-is-enough.html.

¹⁴³ См.: Fareed Zakaria, «How History Could Deter Iranian Aggression», Washington Post, February 15, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/history-could-be-a-deterrent-to-iranian-aggression/2012/02/15/gIQA6UVcGR_story.html, а также «Deterring Iran Is Best Option», Washington Post, March 14, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/deterring-iran-is-the-best-option/2012/03/14/gIQA0Y9mCS_story.html; Bruce Riedel, «Iran Is Not an Existential Threat», thedailynewsegypt.com, January 20, 2012, http://thedailynewsegypt.com/global-views/iran-is-not-an-existential-threat.html; Maloney, «How to Contain a Nuclear Iran». Более ранние повторы этих дебатов освещены у: David Sanger, «Debate Grows on Nuclear Containment of Iran», New York Times, March 13, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/weekinreview/14sanger.html. О том, как может выглядеть сдерживание, см.: James Lindsay and Ray Takeyh, «After Iran Gets the Bomb: Containment and Its Complications», Foreign Affairs, March/April2010, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66032/james-m-lindsay-and-ray-takeyh/after-iran-gets-the-bomb.

¹⁴⁴ «Vice President Biden: Iraq Could Be One of the Great Achievements of This Administration», ABC News, February 11, 2011, http://abcnres.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/02/vice-president-biden-iraq-could-be-one-of-the-great-achievements-of-this-administration/.

¹⁴⁵ Kenneth Pollock, «Maliki Dilemma», National Interest, February 1, 2012, http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-maliki-dilemma-6418.

¹⁴⁶ Toby Dodge, «The Resistible Rise of Nuri Al-Maliki», Opendemocracy, March 22, 2012, http://www.opendemocracy.net/toby-dodge/resistible-rise-of-nuri-al-maliki.

¹⁴⁷ Liz Sly, «U.S. Policy on Iraq Questioned as Influence Wanes, Maliki Consolidates Power», Washington Post, April 8, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-policy-on-iraq-questioned-as-influence-wanes/2012/04/08/gIQAHEAU4S_story.html?hpid=z1.

¹⁴⁸ Joseph R. Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, «Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq», New York Times, May 1, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/opinion/01biden.html?pagewanted=all.

¹⁴⁹ Joseph R. Biden, «A Plan to Hold Iraq Together», Washington Post, August 24, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301419.html; «Biden Vows to Fight Troop Surge in Iraq», CBS News, February 11, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/2100—250_162—2299237.html.

¹⁵⁰ Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama (New York: Pantheon, 2012), pp. 628—50.

¹⁵¹ Michael R. Gordon, «Failed Efforts and Challenges of America’s Last Months in Iraq», New York Times, September23, 2012, p. A1.

¹⁵² Martin S. Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, and Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2012).

¹⁵³ Gordon and Trainor, The Endgame, p. 657.

¹⁵⁴ Sly, «U.S. Policy on Iraq Questioned».

¹⁵⁵ Serena Chaudhry, «Feeling Marginalized, Some Iraq Sunnis Eye Autonomy», Reuters. January 1, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/01/us-iraq-politics-sunnis-idUSTRE80005620120101.

¹⁵⁶ «Kurdish Leader Accuses Iraqi PM of Leading Country to ‘Dictatorship’»Al-Arabiya News, March 21, 2012, http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/21/202063.html.