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November 11, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8879463/Why-Iran-wants-the-bomb.html

Why Iran Wants the Bomb

(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - Rather than being dismayed by the IAEA's findings, I suspect the majority of Iranians will be delighted that the report shows that their country is still very much on course to join the world's elite club of nuclear-armed powers. We in the West might be horrified at the prospect of the mullahs getting the atom bomb, but Iranians have a very different take on their country's nuclear ambitions. Any distinctions between moderates and hardliners are meaningless so far as Iran's nuclear program is concerned. Many of the biggest advances in Iran's nuclear development were made when so-called moderates such as Khatami and Rafsanjani ruled Tehran. The widely held national desire of Iranians to reassert the influence their country once enjoyed, when the mere mention of the Persian empire struck fear into the hearts of its enemies, is a factor that should not be discounted lightly.

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