Originally posted by moon1969
Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon
TEHRAN—Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America's uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon. "Our intelligence estimates ...[text shortened]... .S. providing weapons and resources to a rogue third-party state such as Israel.
Funny, but also accurately states the case.
Iran does nothing wrong by building nuclear capability for reactors or weapons. Other nations are free to try to convince them to do otherwise which may or may not be successful.
But no nation can force another nation to do something it does not wish to do EXCEPT when that nation is violating the human rights of its own citizens or actively interfering with the rights of another nation. (NB. If a democratic UN were in place, then nations could also be forced if they violated a UN resolution. But we don't have that yet.)
Any nation that attacks Iran for building nuclear capability will be clearly, utterly, absolutely and unarguably in the wrong. As an American I find it horrifying to think that any of my countrymen, especially our elected politicians, could express the remotest support for such an action. It is critical to hear under what principle they think such an action is warranted.
We are compounding the irrationality that was built up over Iraq. Instead of saying we were invading Iraq to depose a dictator (right!), we said we were invading Iraq to neutralize WMDs (wrong!) Iran is a repressive police state, but if we have an issue with that, then that should be our issue -- not building nuclear capability which many nations have done without repercussions.