Ok so basically, what happens if Iran achieves nuclear capabilities? The Cold War stand-by of MAD(Mutually Assured Destruction) won't apply, winning for the Iranians is destroying Israel and they won't care if they get the shit nuked out of them too. Thoughts?
Iran’s Nuclear Threat Fabrication Israeli intelligence has determined that Iran has neither the enriched uranium nor the capability to produce an atomic weapon now or in the immediate future, in contrast to the hysterical claims publicized by the US pro-Israel lobbies. Mohammed El Baradei, head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has inspected Iran for several years, has pointed out that the IAEA has found no proof that Iran is trying to construct nuclear weapons. He criticized Israeli and US war plans indirectly by warning that a "military solution would be completely un-productive" (Financial Times, Dec. 10/11, 2005).
More recently, Iran, in a clear move to clarify the issue of the future use of enriched uranium, "opened the door for US help in building a nuclear power plant" (USA Today, Dec. 11, 2005). Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid Reza Asefi, speaking at a press conference, stated "America can take part in the international bidding for the construction of Iran’s nuclear power plant if they observe the basic standards and quality" (USA Today, Dec. 11, 2005). Iran also plans to build several other nuclear power plants with foreign help. The Iranian call for foreign assistance is hardly the strategy of a country trying to conduct a covert atomic bomb program, especially one directed at involving one of its principal accusers.
The Iranians are at an elementary stage in the processing of uranium, not even reaching the point of uranium enrichment, which in turn will take still a number of years, and overcoming many complex technical problems before it can build a bomb. There is no factual basis for arguing that Iran represents a nuclear threat to Israel or to the US forces in the Middle East.
I fear that Russia is something we need to worry about more. Atleast the Iranians don't yet have the necessary capabilities to create nuclear weapons, but with Russia's help, they might have it soon.
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — The top nuclear officials of Iran and Russia announced Sunday that they had reached initial agreement on a deal to enrich Iranian uranium on Russian soil and said that talks would continue over the details.
Something that is kind of scary is that the Russians helped build the Iranian power plant. They ship the uranium off to Russia where it is enriched, and then it is brough back to Iran for their power plant.
the Russians built Iran's first nuclear power plant.
During his weekly news conference on Sunday, Hamidreza Assefi, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, reasserted that Iran had no intention to suspend its nuclear program, which it has insisted is geared toward producing electricity and not weapons.
I wonder how long that will last. Do you guys think that they will change gears and focus more on weapons, or do you think they are telling the truth when they say that they only are going to use it for producing electricity?
Tehran and Moscow have agreed to expand the number of countries participating in the plan to enrich Iranian uranium in Russia,
Why would they increase the number of countries participating in the plan if they didn't have plans to use that for weapons? Wouldn't you think that Russia could help them enough with electricity so that they didn't need others to help them.. Kind of suspicous.. I am going to go out on a limb here, but who thinks that this could lead to a WWIII?
