"Iran's president...stands on the solid ground of international law"

[LynnTheDem]

Here, Iran's president is supported by his countrymen and stands on the solid ground of international law. Yet Secretary of State Condi Rice said last week, "There is simply no peaceful rationale for the Iranian regime to resume uranium enrichment."

Is Condi right?

Unlike Israel, Pakistan and India, which clandestinely built nuclear weapons, Iran has signed the NPT. And Tehran may wish to exercise its rights under the treaty to master the nuclear fuel cycle to build power plants for electricity, rather than use up the oil and gas deposits she exports to earn all of her hard currency. Nuclear power makes sense for Iran.

True, in gaining such expertise, Iran may wish to be able...to go nuclear. For the United States and Israel, which have repeatedly threatened her, are both in the neighborhood and have nuclear arsenals. Acquiring an atom bomb to deter a U.S. or Israeli attack may not appear a "peaceful rationale" to Rice, but the Iranians may have a different perspective.

Having seen what we did to Iraq, but how deferential we are to North Korea, would it be irrational for Tehran to seek its own deterrent?

And, again, just how imminent is this "grave threat"?

"We don't see a clear and present danger," Mohamed ElBaradei of the IAEA has just told Newsweek.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=11600

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. What would happen if we just gave them nukes... located them,

tagged them, secured them, and locked them down? What if we sold them nukes, (in the true capitalist spirit) and knew where they were, made sure they stayed there, put homing beacons on them, knew where they were at all times.... what if we primed the pump, with the understanding that if they should happen to go somewhere we rather they didn't, Tehran and its surrounding areas would become rather flat.... stupid idea, but is it any more stupid than what Rummy and Shrub spout almost daily????

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. what if we dismantled all of our nukes

and others did the same?

[LynnTheDem]

3. Iran wants nuclear power. They asked the US to BID on building

Iran's nuclear power.

bush did his usual belligerant bullshit.