Why antagonize the world by pursuing nuclear weapons?
Iran’s appetite for nuclear weapons is simultaneously fed by a blinding sense of insecurity and a burning desire to re-establish the ancient Persian Empire. The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was extremely bloody. It lasted eight long years and took nearly a million lives-mostly Iranian. They threw everything they had at Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, yet they couldn’t beat him. The United States was secretly helping the Iraqis with battlefield intelligence and satellite imagery, but even without U.S. support, Iran couldn’t dominate Iraq. Three years later, Iraq’s million-man army was decimated by the U.S. military inside of forty-five days in the first Gulf war. This shocked and alarmed the Iranians. So, they concluded that an accelerated WMD program was the surest way to achieve security. During the subsequent years, Iran has fully developed their chemical and biological weapons. And after September 11, Iran has intensified its uranium enrichment program and, as is believed by most intelligence a
