Much of the West argue the best way to deter Iran from gaining the capability of building a nuclear weapon. The fact that Iran’s President, Mahmūd Ahmadinejâd, denies the Holocaust ever happened and wants Israel taken off the map only complicates the matter.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) claims the country may already be working toward building nukes for military use.
So how does the West deal with a nuclear Iran? Military force? Deterrence?
It might surprise you how successful deterrence has already been in the 20th century in dealing with seemingly irrational governments and their possession of nuclear weapons. I leave you with this two part heated debate between CNN’s Fareed Zararia and Norman Podhoretz.
And finally, a much newer recording of Zakaria’s take on the Iran issue:
Also worth noting: Iran’s highest valued monetary note (50,000 rials) contains a nuclear symbol on the back side:
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If western governments could just keep our noses out of other sovereign nations’ internal affairs, the situation in the Middle East would be by far a better situation for all involved.
The admitted fact is that in 1953 the CIA, MI6, and Mossed helped overthrow the democratically elected President Mossadeq in response to him throwing British Petroleum out of the country and nationalizing Iran’s oilfields. We then installed the current tyrannical Iranian Monarchy.
Fast-forward to present day where we demonize Iran for being undemocratic and we are running covert, false flag operations to cause unrest there yet again. When you understand the history of Iran you begin to understand the process in play. Our intelligence agencies create a constant state of unrest in countries which contain natural resources which we want to control. The civil unrests gives the tyrant(which we installed)the excuse he needs to impose constant martial law and crush dissent.
As demonstrated by the post war situation in Vietnam, the proper way to sell freedom is to trade with a nation. You can’t give people freedom by pointing a sword at them, they have to earn it themselves.
Because our past and current foreign policy meddling in Iran has had such a negative impact on their present day situation there. I propose that we respect their sovereignty and use trade and set an example that they can respect and follow.