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riverwalker

(8,694 posts) Mon Jan 16, 2012, 11:14 AM Jan 2012

Good Nuclear Iran, Bad Nuclear Iran

http://www.juancole.com/2012/01/good-nuclear-iran-bad-nuclear-iran.html

An ad for the nuclear industry from the 1970s, depicting pro-Western Iranian dictator Mohammadd Reza Pahlavi

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Good Nuclear Iran, Bad Nuclear Iran (Original Post) riverwalker Jan 2012 OP

It was the Shah who signed the NNPT. Israel refused. Who's bad? leveymg Jan 2012 #1

leveymg

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1. It was the Shah who signed the NNPT. Israel refused. Who's bad?

Reply to riverwalker (Original post)

Mon Jan 16, 2012, 12:05 PM

Jan 2012

What gives Israel the right to repeatedly threaten Iran with its arsenal of hundreds of nuclear weapons just because Iran may, someday, develop a bomb of its own? What gives anyone the right to assassinate another country's scientists?

Who's the irrational "outlaw" country there?

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