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World War III News, Thursday, April 20th, 2006 AD....U.S. & Iran on collision course |
www.canada.com/
U.S. and Iran on collision course
Peter Goodspeed, National Post
Published: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The drumbeat of war surrounding Iran's nuclear program is growing
louder.
There are signs confrontation could turn to conflict in the mix of
menacing rhetoric emerging from Iran and growing reports the U.S.
military has begun reviewing plans for attacking Iran's nuclear
facilities. To many, Washington and Tehran appear to be on a collision
course.
Iran insists it has an absolute right to have a civil nuclear power
program and argues there is nothing in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty to prevent it from developing a domestic nuclear program. In
fact, its leaders have promoted their plans as a symbol of modernity
that will introduce Iran to the world as a 21st-century power.
Washington, meanwhile, regards Iran as an anti-American
terrorist-sponsoring state which has played godfather to Hamas,
Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. Its leaders are suspected of training and
arming Shiite militias inside Iraq and sheltering senior al-Qaeda
leaders who fled from Afghanistan.
Iran, U.S. officials argue, cannot be trusted. It has already been
caught hiding parts of its nuclear program and is probably secretly
trying to build nuclear weapons.
Before he invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush, the U.S. President,
vowed his administration would not "permit the world's most dangerous
regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."
Now, he and his officials say a nuclear-armed Iran will be a
destabilizing factor in the Middle East and will directly threaten
Israel and the United States.
Faced with a rapidly advancing Iranian nuclear program and Iran's total
disregard of a UN Security Council ultimatum ordering it to freeze
nuclear enrichment programs by April 28, some experts are advocating
preventive military strikes which, while they might not eradicate
Iran's nuclear program, could set it back for years.
Adding impetus to the military argument is the difficulty of getting
Russia and China, two veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council,
to agree to economic sanctions, and the question of whether sanctions
would have any effect on such a recalcitrant regime.
In a matter of weeks, relations between Washington and Tehran have
deteriorated sharply. Last week, Iran's hardline President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was almost exultant when he announced Iran had joined the
world's nuclear club by successfully enriching uranium for the first
time.
He was equally belligerent a day later, when world leaders condemned
Iran for ignoring UN Security Council demands to freeze its nuclear
program, insisting the Islamic Republic will not retreat "even one
iota" in the face of international pressure.
"Our answer to those who are angry about Iran obtaining the full
nuclear cycle is one phrase," he declared. "We say, 'Be angry and die
of this anger.' "
Days earlier, U.S. magazines and newspapers had been filled with
reports the Bush administration is seriously considering attacking
Iran's nuclear facilities to stop the Islamic Republic from becoming a
nuclear-armed state.
Some reports suggested senior U.S. government figures want to retain
the option of using tactical nuclear weapons against some of Iran's
heavily fortified underground targets.
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