[lit-ideas] Re: Iran: Last Chance but One
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:51:39 -0800
Yeah, he says that too. That's one of the things that makes the article so
interesting. And right after saying that Iran has the moral right to
nuclear weapons, he says "The problem is that acquisition of nuclear weapons
by Tehran is unacceptable either for the region's countries, or for the
great powers, primarily for Russia, which is located in the direct proximity
of Iran, and within reach of potential Iranian nuclear delivery vehicles."
The paragraph I had in mind earlier was, "In parallel, Western experts and
politicians, joined recently by Russian researchers and specialists, have
been leaning towards an almost unanimous opinion that Tehran's diplomatic
efforts pursue only one goal - to gain time to build the bomb."
I was assuming that he was identifying with the Russian position, but
perhaps not.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Iran: Last Chance but One
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20060215/1502302.htm
Here is an interesting article by the Board Chairman
of the Russian Council
on Foreign and Defense Policy. He thinks the Iranians
are engaged in
diplomatic stalling until they can get their bomb
built.
I don't see that the article actually says that. It
says that:
The Iranians have the moral right to wish to possess
nuclear weapons. They live in a very dangerous region.
In the south Iran borders on nuclear Pakistan, which
may explode any time. In the west, it is flanked by
unstable Iraq with American troops, and further on,
there is nuclear Israel, which Tehran considers its
worst enemy. (Although in many respects this is the
problem of Tehran, which nurtures the image of a foe).
The Iranians justifiably complain about the world
community's largely unfair attitudes. They recall that
during the Iran-Iraq war, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
helped Iraq, and kept shameless silence when Iraq used
chemical weapons against Iran.
But as true as these observations are, there is no
evidence that Iran actually is seeking to create
nuclear weapons, and the article does not present any.
O.K.
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