Why shouldn Iran have nuclear weapons?
Israel has American warheads ready to fire Iranians see only hypocrisy from the world’s nuclear powers As international political powers seek Iran’s capitulation on nuclear weapons development, little notice is given to what the Americans and the British have done to create this crisis nor what steps the Israelis might eventually take to make it profoundly more complicated. Iran’s antipathy toward the West did not spontaneously generate out of the crazed rhetoric of radical mullahs. It has been spurred by what Iranians see as hypocrisy on the part of members of the world’s nuclear community, and the bumbled meddling of the US and UK in Iranian affairs for more than a half century. Iran is dangerous, but the British and the Americans have helped to make it that way. And the situation is even more precarious than it appears. Shortly after the Gulf War in 1991, Germany gave Israel two of its diesel-powered Dolphin-class submarines. The Israelis agreed to purchase a third at a greatly redu
