25 January 2005

What did I tell you?

"Speculation the US is planning to attack Iran has grown amid concerns the Iranians are building nuclear weapons."
A few months ago I said that the next target for US military intervention might be Iran. There's a better reason -a nuke weapon capability within about five years and breach of UN treaties. However, North Korea is left alone and no-one seems to be concerned about Pakistan, India or Israel with regard to illegal nuclear weapons [technically any nukes are illegal, I believe]. So it begins to look like a put-up job.
I really hope that things don't develop along the lines of what happened in Iraq: there is every chance that an already partly democratic Iran may become more so over time given the feeelings of its younger population. An invasion would turn that around right quick. The main hope is that the USA doesnt actually have enough troops to do it. Hence the diplomatic solution looks the better option [not to mention cheaper, heck a massive budget deficit has to concentrate minds sometime].
BBC NEWS | Politics | US 'committed to Iran diplomacy':

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