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Iran’s Nuclear Adventurism

Iran’s Nuclear Adventurism  The Times January 26, 2009 The West has few options but united diplomacy to contain a threatening regime. There is no obvious course by which outsiders can stymie the development of an Iranian bomb. A military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities has surely been debated within the US, recalling Israel’s 1981 destruction of the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq. But the logistical difficulties are immense and the chances of success slight. Moreover, while Iran has an extremist theocratic regime, it is not a totalitarian state. It has a civil society and a degree of openness that was unknown in Baathist Iraq. The West must not lose the possibility of exerting pressure on Iran by a direct appeal to a generally young population with much instinctive goodwill to the West…………………………..The conjunction of a new US Administration and technical obstacles may provide an opportunity to check Iran’s nuclear adventurism. The evidence is that Iran freezes its nuclear activities when it faces concerted diplomatic pressure. Unlike North Korea, it wishes to remain within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). In the face of a united front from the US and the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany), Iran suspended its uranium enrichment in October 2003, and a year later agreed to a still more comprehensive moratorium. It now appears that Iran’s stock of raw uranium is running low.

Iran’s Nuclear Adventurism -Times Online

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January 26, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics