Imagine, for a moment, that you are an Iranian mullah. Sitting crosslegged on your Persian rug in Tehran, sipping a cup of chai, you glance up at the map of the Middle East on the wall. It is a disturbing image: your country, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is surrounded on all sides by virulent enemies and regional rivals, both nuclear and non-nuclear.
The map makes it clear: Iran is, literally, encircled by the United States and its allies.
If that wasn't worrying enough, your country seems to be under (covert) attack…
Wouldn't it be rational for Iran – geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened – to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?
You can read the whole of Mehdi Hasan’s brilliant Guardian article on the threat posed to Iran, here.
1 comment:
Funny thing is that is the same rationale that Israeli defenders of its nuclear program use that are warning about a nuclear Iran.
Do as Simon says, not as Simon does.
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