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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
I would be ok with Iran being a nuclear state if its people were able to vote on the use of those nuclear arms, but they are not.
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Luckily this isn't a problem because they're not a nuclear state and have no intention of being one. That's why they're signed up to the NPT (and actually are pushing not only to end proliferation but start reducing the number of nuclear weapons) unlike Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East; and they have always cooperated with the IAEA, unlike Israel and America who refuse to let them inspect their already existing nuclear weapons. And incidentally I live in a "democracy" but I've never been able to vote on whether we have nuclear weapons and how they'll be used.
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
and If the religious leaders in Iran decide nuclear weapons are the way to go,
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"Holding these arms is a sin as well as useless, harmful and dangerous" (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei).
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Originally Posted by the ikara cult
Much as i dislike right wing Israeli politics and i dislike the idea of a Jewish state, theyre being threatened with annihilation, its something we've seen in the 20th century, and it worries me.
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How are they being threatened with annihilation?