12 February 2010
The Need to Eliminate Iran's Nuclear Weapon Capabilities and Restore US International Leadership
Rationality & Miscalculation in International Conflict
Iran does not need nuclear weapons for defence. Its nuclear weapons program was originally conceived as a counter to Saddam’s Iraq. This is no longer any threat to Iran. Israel never has been a danger to Iran – apart from its current need to protect itself from the threat from Iranian nuclear weapons.
There are only two possible reasons for Iranian nuclear weaponry. The first is to intimidate and dominate. The second is for aggressive use. The first is certain. The second is a frightening prospect.
The Shi’a-Muslim ‘Internationale’
In 1919 following the Bolshevik revolution, Lenin and Zinoviev set up the Communist International – the ‘Comintern’. Its aims were to supersede the earlier ‘Second International’ which was dominated by non-revolutionary socialist parties; to encourage the growth of communist parties throughout the world; to disrupt capitalist powers antagonistic to the new soviet state and to overthrow the capitalist states....
