Monday, June 02, 2008

IRAN'S RIGHT TO NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT TECHNOLOGY

POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL

Indeed, enrichment is part of nuclear technology.

Iran has every right to exercise its capacity for science, providing resources for its economy and opportunities for young scientists.

The Israeli-American attitudes towards Iran are arrogant almost beyond belief.

Israel has lied to the world for forty years, having today according to our latest information, 150 nuclear warheads plus the capacity to deliver them, even to Europe.

The U.S. of course maintains enough thermonuclear weapons to, in Hillary's lovely word, "obliterate" a good portion of the earth.

Iran does not have a weapons program so far as we know.

But if it did, so what? Iran has as much right as anyone to do so.

Indeed, today they are surrounded by nuclear powers. Israel and the U.S. threaten and insult them regularly.

Stability in the Mideast would actually result if there were a power with weapons to match Israel. As it is, Israel is free to act the bully throughout the region, a miniature replica of American behavior in much of the rest of the world.



Truly frightening, isn't she?