Iran is a big country. It has a storied history. After being taken over by Ayatollah Khomeini and his clerics and turned into a theocracy the country and its people appeared doomed. We kept hearing about how the people of Iran suffer under such harsh rules and yearn for freedom and Western ways.
Moderate politicians started to make headway against the clerics’ rule and we all thought that the country was on the verge of a renaissance but then the clerics tightened their grip, arresting and killing those that showed any signs of progressive actions or even thought.
The clerics drew up a list of names the people could vote for. All the people on the list obviously supported the rule of the clerics.
The people of Iran supposedly elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a real religious nut case that has proven, by his words and actions, to be a threat not only to his own people but to the world at large.
Now he wants to build nuclear weapons. He said that he wants nuclear technology for peaceful purposes like energy production even though Iran has enough oil to energize their country basically forever.
No one believes him and now the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency voted to refer the Iran case to the U.N. Security Council because it is now a security issue.
Now there are countries that have atom bombs and make people nervous like North Korea, Pakistan and India and Pakistan was actually caught selling nuclear technology to Iran but the thought of Iran, in the hands of the current nuts, with an atom bomb is very scary. Most countries are scared and voted to do something BUT NOT Cuba, Syria and Venezuela.
I think Iran should be offered a nuclear reactor for energy production if they quit all nuclear testing and ambitions and agree to inspections by the U.N.
But we know they really want an atom bomb to protect themselves from a BUSH attack – who can blame them!
So, we (United Nations) need to take whatever action(s) that will keep Iran from developing a nuclear bomb!
Janusz
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