Is there a case to be made that Iran has every right to enrich uranium and even pursue a nuclear weapon if it so wishes? There are many people, particularly in developing countries, who see the “big five” nuclear powers as hypocrites that refuse to consider the strategic imperatives of Iranian geopolitics.
This editorial from yesterday’s edition of Mexico’s La Jornada says in part:
To wave the scarecrow of an Iran equipped with nuclear weapons is an act of false alarmism on the part of Paris and Washington. Rather, it seems reasonable to assume that these two governments have chosen to exploit the domestic problems of the Iranian regime – a dissident movement renewed and fed by the authoritarianism and intolerance of Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s government – to push it to the ropes through unjust and hypocritical economic sanctions.
In the current situation, Iran, having endured decades under the threat of U.S. militarism, has a sovereign right to pursue its nuclear program for peaceful purposes and even, if such were the case, to develop nuclear weapons. Ultimately, the Iranian regime will have learned the lesson of Iraq, a nation that Washington accused of possessing weapons of mass destruction and which it could pulverize with impunity because it didn’t possess them.
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