Whether We Like Nukes or Not
December 26, 2006, 11:50 am |
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
“Iran is a nuclear country” whether the world likes it or not…
- AP
These are the words of the very loony Iranian President Ahmadinejad, which was as the AP puts it, an “ambiguous statement” which “stirred fears about” Iran’s “nuclear ambitions.” As my dad, bless his soul, used to say: “He’s crazy like a fox.”
Of course Ahmadinejad is being ambiguous, practicing his sophistry to scare the hell out of his neighbors, the West, and his own people. Nukes are the ultimate guarantee of power for Iran’s Islamists, or so they think. What will Iran’s neighbors do once Iran tests its first bomb?
Many Sunni Arab states, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are worried about the growing influence of Shiite Iran in Iraq, and its potential for stirring up religious tensions between the region’s Shiite and Sunni populations. Both Iran and Iraq have Shiite Muslim majorities.
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