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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone got their head around the Iran deal.....
what is to stop the Iranians from giving our sitting fascist the finger and going back to building their nuclear arsenal?
imanamerican63
(13,802 posts)He is going to have every other nuclear testing countries regrouping and retesting their weapons! A world we now live in, thanks to the madman of the world Trump!
underpants
(182,839 posts)The Iran deal ended what was an almost certain attack by Israel.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)1. Iran is philosophically opposed to nukes and chemical weapons:
"...Public statements by Khamenei wherein he voices his opposition to pursuit and development of nuclear weapons in moral, religious and Islamic juridical terms.[12] Khamenei's official website specifically cites a 2010 version[13] of these statements in the fatwa section of the website in Farsi as a fatwa on "Prohibition of Weapons of Mass Destruction":[5]
We believe that besides nuclear weapons, other types of weapons of mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons also pose a serious threat to humanity. The Iranian nation which is itself a victim of chemical weapons feels more than any other nation the danger that is caused by the production and stockpiling of such weapons and is prepared to make use of all its facilities to counter such threats.
We consider the use of such weapons as haraam and believe that it is everyone's duty to make efforts to secure humanity against this great disaster.[5]
Also, during a speech delivered on 9 April 2015 in a meeting with a group of panegyrists he said:
This is while we are not after nuclear tests. We are not after nuclear weapons. And this is not because they are telling us not to pursue these things. Rather, we do not want these things for the sake of ourselves and our religion and because reason is telling us not to do so. Both shar'i and aqli [related to logic and reason] fatwas dictate that we do not pursue them. Our aqli fatwa is that we do not need a nuclear weapon either in the present time or in the future. A nuclear weapon is a source of trouble for a country like ours[14]"
2. If Iran does decide to go with nukes, it would be much simpler to buy them from NK who always needs the cash.