From John Bolton to Jeffrey Goldberg, commentators, journalists and policy movers have been trying to read the tea leaves on Iran’s next nuclear move, Israel’s potential response, and what it means for the rest of the world. Heritage analyst Peter Brookes lays out the facts of the case and a reasoned discussion of the looming fulfillment of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
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The reactor will prove to be an irresistable temptation for Iranian leaders. They are hell-bent on obtaining enriched fissile materials for their bomb program. Anyone with a shred of understanding recognizes that the reactor will produce the full normal range of fission products (unavoidable) from which they can extract plutonium and make weapons.
Even if the present intention is for civil use only, the combination of theocratic leadership trying to establish a caliphate and a quick path to nuclear weapons via fission products produced in their reactor will quickly lead them to plutonium extraction.
The only thing worse than the fox guarding someone ele's hen house is the fox guarding his own hen house..
I was looking for information on arguments against the Mosque being built at ground zero. I must not punched the correct search buttons.
Kust nuke the friggin' Middle East and be done with it once and for all!