Nuclear Tech Race Is On In Middle East

CaroKann writes "The TimesOnline is reporting that six Middle Eastern nations have announced interest in developing nuclear technology. The nations involved are Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Middle East Economic Digest states that most of these nations are interested in developing nuclear technology for the purpose of powering desalination plants. However, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, suggests that the sudden interest in nuclear technology is driven by the desire of the six nations to create a 'security hedge' in response to Iran's recent nuclear development program."

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Re:Plan ahead

[Master of Transhuman]

Gimme a break.

Iran HAS NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM. There is not one single scrap of evidence that they do, according to the IAEA - merely some "concerns" - and there is an explicit religious fatwa from the Iranian Supreme Leader rejecting the possession of nuclear weapons by Iran.

Get it through your head.

Secondly, even if they HAD one (and it would be rational for them to do so), they would have NO ABILITY to threaten ANYONE in the Middle East, let alone Europe, with any kind of first-strike scenario.

Israel has an estimated 100-400 nuclear weapons, including nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on submarines, giving them a second-strike capability, as well as a first-strike capability.

Iran couldn't match that in thirty years...

Get a clue.

THERE IS NO IRAN "NUCLEAR CRISIS".

The sole effect of Iran having one or more nuclear weapons would be to remove the "regime change" program of Israel and the neocons off the table. Because even if Israel has a second-strike capability, Israel has no ability to survive a (properly targeted) first strike on it. Therefore regime change in iran would no longer be an option for the US and Israel.

THIS is why Bush and the neocons are going to attack Iran at any time before Bush leaves office.

The result will be a catastrophic regional war in the Middle East that will doom the US economy, result in scores of thousands of US soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands or millions of Iranian and Iraqi civilians dead, massive terrorism directed at the US and complete chaos in the Middle East.

All for the benefit of some fucking Zionists (who are little more than Nazis themselves) and some fucking empire-building fascists and dick-sucking/drug-using evangelists in this country.

Anybody who believes otherwise is a complete and total moron.