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Even by the standards of today’s “international community,” the Western campaign to oblige Iran to abandon nuclear research, an option to which Iran is entitled under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, is breathtaking. The country is ringed by atomic states — India, Pakistan, China, Russia, Israel — and American nuclear submarines patrol its southern coast. Historically, it has every reason to fear outside threats. Although neutral, it was occupied by both British and Soviet forces during World War II. Its elected government was overthrown by an Anglo-American coup in 1953, and the secular opposition was destroyed. From 1980 to 1988, the Western powers abetted Saddam Hussein’s onslaught, in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians died. In the war’s final stages, the US destroyed nearly half the Iranian navy in the Gulf, and for good measure shot down a crowded civilian passenger plan.

At present, Iran as managed little more than primitive gropings toward the technology needed for nuclear self-defense. Yet these were presented as a casus belli by Bush, Blair, Chirac and Olmert, whose own states were armed with hundreds — in the case of the United States, thousands — of nuclear weapons […] There is not a shred of justification for the oligopoly of the present nuclear powers, which is so hypocritical it does does not dare even speak its name — Israel, with 200 nuclear bombs, is never mentioned.

— Tariq Ali

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