Iran nuclear power center. (Photo from San Francisco Sentinel)From The Newsweek:
Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think. Take the bomb. The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy with a peaceful civilian program (which could make the challenge it poses more complex). What's the evidence? Well, over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has quoted the regime's founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who asserted that such weapons were "un-Islamic."
The country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa in 2004 describing the use of nuclear weapons as immoral. In a subsequent sermon, he declared that "developing, producing or stockpiling nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islam." Last year Khamenei reiterated all these points after meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei. Now, of course, they could all be lying. But it seems odd for a regime that derives its legitimacy from its fidelity to Islam to declare constantly that these weapons are un-Islamic if it intends to develop them. It would be far shrewder to stop reminding people of Khomeini's statements and stop issuing new fatwas against nukes.
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My Comment: On the day that North Korea decides to test a nuclear weapon .... Fareed Zakaria comes out with this gem on Iran.
I have a 101 things to say, but Rantburg's comments on Fareed Zakaria's artiticle is on the money.
.... One of the Middle East's most formidable apologists will try to convince that even though it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, has webbed feet like a duck, an orange bill like a duck, and feathers like a duck, it's not a duck. Good luck, Fareed ....
E-Nuff said.
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