By Marwan Bishara in Imperium
".....By the time US forces withdraw from Iraq and presumably from Afghanistan by the end 2011, the Gulf region and Iran in particular will be the new front where the US forces will redeploy.
Would Tehran become a 'nuclear power' by then, or merely a 'nuclear state' with no nuclear arms? The answer will determine whether the US will confront Iran head on sooner rather than later, or will leave it to implode from within over the next decade like its Cold War bogeyman, the Soviet Union.
Alas, it is very difficult to say if or when Tehran might produce the nuclear arms considering the disinformation about Iran's nuclear programme over the last quarter of a century.
If I got a dollar every time the media predicted imminent production of Iranian nuclear arms, I would have been a millionaire by now. Ahem..."
".....By the time US forces withdraw from Iraq and presumably from Afghanistan by the end 2011, the Gulf region and Iran in particular will be the new front where the US forces will redeploy.
Would Tehran become a 'nuclear power' by then, or merely a 'nuclear state' with no nuclear arms? The answer will determine whether the US will confront Iran head on sooner rather than later, or will leave it to implode from within over the next decade like its Cold War bogeyman, the Soviet Union.
Alas, it is very difficult to say if or when Tehran might produce the nuclear arms considering the disinformation about Iran's nuclear programme over the last quarter of a century.
If I got a dollar every time the media predicted imminent production of Iranian nuclear arms, I would have been a millionaire by now. Ahem..."
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