As astounding as it seems, a translation of a piece from a Tunisian newspaper on the must-read site Watching America makes the case that the U.S. has signed off on Iran having nukes — providing certain guarantees are given.
Here’s the intro by Watching America’s editors to the translated piece:
Is it possible that that Washington has tacitly given the go-ahead to Iran to build its nuclear bomb? According to this article from the Tunis Hebdo of Tunisia, just as the U.S. let Pakistan have the bomb to keep India from embracing the USSR too strongly, it is ready to sign off on an Iranian atom bomb, with security guarantees for Israel. All of this worries the oil-rich Gulf States, who fear the now almost inevitable arrival of the ‘Shiite Crescent.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.