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Ahmadinejad On Nuclear PowerI believe he's more right on this than wrong, ya know...
Basically, the Security Council thinks Iran might be doing what it's doing to get nukes. But what they are doing is legal under the non-proliferation act - they aren't in violation yet. The West doesn't want them to be within spring distance of a nuclear bomb. But, the thing is, lots of countries are within sprint distance (Canada or Japan could have nukes in less than year, no question, for example). So, if you're Iranian, the question is "why can they have sprint capacity and we can't?" Especially as Iran is projected to, within 10 years, not have enough energy to supply its own needs. So it does need nuclear energy. And again, Ahmadinejad is right - who wants to depend on the West for something as basic as energy? Once you need it; once they supply it, they could easily enough cut you off. And it's not like the West doesn't have a record of doing exactly that to regimes it doesn't like. That's before we get to the real essence of the problem - perhaps Iran does want a nuclear bomb. But then, who wouldn't in their shoes? The US government for years has been very clear that they want "regime change" in Iran. They saw what happened to Iraq the last time the US wanted regime change really badly. Saddam was invaded not because he had nukes, but because he didn't and the lesson was clear to every government on Washington's hate list - get a bomb, or one day you could end hanging from a noose like Saddam. Reap what you sow. If I were Iran I wouldn't be giving up my nuclear program either. And I wouldn't see why I can't have what Western countries have - my own nuclear industry. Ahmadinejad and the Iranian leadership aren't insane, or stupid, or any more evil than many other regimes. They're rational people, and they're actiong rationally. Ian Welsh September 25, 2007 - 3:14am
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