Dore Gold spoke about the nuclear threat at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on September 1, 2009.

He said that if we stay on the path we're on, the Ayatollahs will have the bomb. He argues that diplomatic engagement with Iran has never worked. Iran has pursued its nuclear ambitions at first in secret and then in defiance of the United Nations and Western protests - and it will not be stopped by Western diplomats waving olive branches and offering promises of aid or threats of sanctions. In his new book The Rise of Nuclear Iran, Gold confronts one of the most important foreign policy questions of our time: Will Iran be allowed to become a nuclear power - and at what cost?