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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7694-2003Mar10.html
Iranians Assert Right to Nuclear Weapons
(Washington Post) While maintaining that their country is not developing nuclear weapons, Iranians argue strenuously and with rare unanimity that they have a right to such weapons, to balance Israel's arsenal and as a manifestation of national pride. Iran's defense of its right to obtain nuclear arms cuts across the country's deep political divide, uniting the conservative clerics and the reformers.