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Iraq and Nuclear Iran

• Iran has immediate influence in Iraqi politics
  because of history and geography, as well as
  economic, ethnic, religious, and paramilitary
  ties.

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IRAQ and Nuclear IRAN

• Primary responsibility for the eight long years
  of bloodletting must rest with the governments of
  the Iraq
• France became the major source of Iraq's
  high-tech weaponry, in no small part to protect
  its financial stake in that country
• of financial backing came from other Arab states
  oil-rich Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
• The U.S. objective was not profits from the arms
  trade, but the much more significant aim of
  controlling to the greatest extent possible the
  region's oil resources.

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IRAQ and Nuclear IRAN

• In particular the United States along its allies
  (among them Britain France and Italy ) provided
  Iraq with biological and chemical and the
  precursors to nuclear capabilities.

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The Leaders of Islamic Republic Learned two
important lessons from their experience

1. Never again allow yourself to be in a position of
   such strategic vulnerability and
2. When you are facing the worlds superpower,
   multilateral treaties and conventions are
   worthless.

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IRAQ and Nuclear IRAN

• Chemical bombs and biological weapons are poor
  mans atomic bombs and can easily produced. We
  should at least consider them for our
  defenseAlthough the use of such weapons is
  inhuman the war taught us that international
  laws are only drops of ink on paper.
• Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
• Parliamentary speaker (and future president)

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• The world would be a more dangerous place with
  nuclear weapons in Iran. A Persian power with a
  keen sense of its 2,500-year history, Iran
  occupies a pivotal position straddling the
  Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The country has
  the largest population in the Middle East, the
  worlds third largest oil reserves, the second
  largest natural gas reserves, and aspirations to
  again become the regions major power. Add
  nuclear weapons, and this mixture become highly
  combustible

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• Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has made a
  speech to the UN stating his country's
  "inalienable right" to produce nuclear energy. He
  attacked Western governments for trying to create
  an "apartheid" system in peaceful nuclear
  technology

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• The world would be a more dangerous place with
  nuclear weapons in Iran. A Persian power with a
  keen sense of its 2,500-year history, Iran
  occupies a pivotal position straddling the
  Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. The country has
  the largest population in the Middle East, the
  worlds third largest oil reserves, the second
  largest natural gas reserves, and aspirations to
  again become the regions major power. Add
  nuclear weapons, and this mixture become highly
  combustible.(The Continuing Problem of Nuclear
  Weapons.