[Mb-civic] FW: Viewpoints: Iran's nuclear crisis

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From: Samii Shahla <shahla at thesamiis.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:41:08 -0500
Subject: Viewpoints: Iran's nuclear crisis

BBC News
03/01/05

  Viewpoints: Iran's nuclear crisis
  Iran's nuclear ambitions cause alarm in many countries. The US
suspects Iran wants to build a nuclear bomb, has vowed to prevent this,
and wants Tehran to halt all nuclear activities.

  Britain, France and Germany are trying to persuade Iran to scrap its
uranium enrichment programme in exchange for technological and
financial aid.

  But Tehran insists that its intentions are strictly civilian.

  We asked eight commentators for their views on the crisis.

  What do you think about the issue? Please use the form at the bottom
of the page to tell us your views.



  Viewpoints by the following (as well as random comments by readers of
the BBC):

  Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute

  Radzhab Safarov, Centre for Iranian Research, Moscow

  Dr Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews

  Dr Ephraim Kam, Jaffe Centre for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv


Professor Nasser Hadian, University of Tehran

  Francois Heisbourg, Fondation Pour la Recherche Strategique

  Sanam Vakil, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington

  Dr Mehrdad Khonsari, Centre for Arab and Iranian studies

can be read here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4290161.stm


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  MY COMMENT:

  It is naive for anyone to believe that the Iranian regime needs
nuclear power for economic reasons. They could not care less for smog,
lack of electical power, water, etc. They have promoted terror within
and outside their borders and are despised by the majority of Iranians
and a menace to the outside world.The nuclear deterrent they are
feverishly working to aquire is their one and only trump card left for
their own survival; it is the only ace left in a deck of cards which is
fully stacked against them. The EU and others should not doubt that
once the mullahs have the nuclear bomb, they will use it to blackmail
and terrorize others into submission - a nightmare scenario!


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