Turkey chastises the West on Iran

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Source: BBC News

Turkey's prime minister has accused the West of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear programme.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Britain's Guardian newspaper Western fears Iran wanted to build the bomb were "gossip".

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Mr Erdogan also said many of the states which objected to any move by Iran to build a nuclear arsenal - including all the permanent members of the UN Security Council - possessed one themselves.

"There is a style of approach which is not very fair because those (who accuse Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons) have very strong nuclear infrastructures," Mr Erdogan said.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8325373.stm

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1. The West's hypocrisy on nuclear weapons is so obvious ....

The West's hypocrisy on nuclear weapons is so obvious, I've been wondering why more world leaders like this Turkish prime minister don't point out in support of Iran's right to develop and use nuclear technology.

The U.S., with 10,000 nuclear warheads, has no moral standing to demand that Iran can't have a nuclear program, even if Iran were developing nuclear weapons.

Perhaps the country that shouldn't be "allowed" to have nuclear weapons or even any type of nuclear industry is the only country (the U.S.) that has actually used nuclear weapons in the past.

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3. I guess the Turkish Prime Minister thought life was fair.

Hopefully this will set him straight.