Iran’s Bomb
New York Times / Barry Gewen
21-Jan-2009 (7 comments)

Was there any more stupid controversy during the recent presidential campaign than the debate over whether we should talk to Iran or not? Things haven’t improved much since then. Tehran’s efforts to obtain the bomb may be one of the two or three most momentous foreign policy issues Barack Obama faces as he settles into the White House. It’s certainly one of the most pressing (within a few months Iran may have enough enriched uranium to produce one bomb). Yet it’s as if a blanket of silence has fallen over Washington’s commentariate. Very few of these writers are talking about Iran. What’s going on? Is the issue just too scary for us to contemplate?

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delldaar

glory and prestige..

by delldaar on Thu Jan 22, 2009 03:40 PM PST

having nuclear power woun't by Iran prestige or world respect..still we'll be a third world nation..like Pakistan!


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Mehdi

Article is Mosad-made but the comments are smart!

by Mehdi on Thu Jan 22, 2009 01:29 PM PST

Amazing how many people are not buying into Mosad propaganda anymore. Mosad can be defeated!


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MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan

To Why Not: Which civilized world are you talking about?

by MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan on Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:42 AM PST

Which civilized world are you talking about?

The ones that eradicated native americans?

The ones that inflicted the Spanish inquisition?

The ones making slavery a global business?

The ones that produced Hitler? Stalin?

The ones that burned their last witch no more than a couple of hundred years ago?

The ones that dropped atomic bombs on civilians just to test them?

The one that made up and orchestrated a phony attack on one of its ships to then start a war in Viet Nam?

The one that created the Mujahedin (later Al-Qaida)?

The one keeping Saddam in power to kill Iranians, and then responsible for death of at least a million Iraqi's?

Or the ones that when the price of milk and dairy products fell in 80's and 90's, poured the overproduction into seas and waterways instead of distributing them to needy countries?

Or the ones removing democratically elected governments and inflicting upon them the brutality of their supported dictators?

So when you talk about rejoining this community of civilized nations, what you actually wish for is joining the strong ones so as to be able to screw the unfortunae ones that cannot. To get a piece of the cake...what you don't know is that the cake has been cut and divided already.


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To all you IR sympathizers and apologists

by Why not? (not verified) on Thu Jan 22, 2009 09:14 AM PST

Why doesn't IRI come clean and put everybody's mind at peace if they've got nothing to hide now that Obama is in the White House and willing and ready to sit down, listen and work out the problems?!

Even Fidel Castro calls Obama a very honest man!

Now I believe it's mullahs' chance to come clean and make peace first and foremost with Iranian people both inside and outside, with the whole world including the US and Israel, and let Iran rejoin the civilized world.


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He is a stooge making the people ready

by Toofantheoncesogreat (not verified) on Thu Jan 22, 2009 07:52 AM PST

I have a bad feeling that another war is coming. Iran versus the US, and it will have nothing to do with Natanz.


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Abarmard

Some one ask

by Abarmard on Thu Jan 22, 2009 06:01 AM PST

These people who write to NY times, where do they get their info? Are they pulling the statements our of their behind?  


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It has or it has not?

by Payman (not verified) on Wed Jan 21, 2009 07:19 PM PST

The author of this NY Times article writes “within a few months Iran may have enough enriched uranium to produce one bomb” but few months ago I read an article on the same newspaper with a headline: “Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon.”

I guess even the columnists form The New York Times don’t read The New York Times.

here is the link
//www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/world/middleeast...


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