What should our country do in regards to Iran's nuclear program?

Question

Iran has given us the big middle finger! Why is no one doing anything about it? Personally, I say take it out. They can't be developing nuclear capabilities with good intentions.....

Answer 1

Iran has not had good intentions towards the West for decades.
The Iranian leader is willing to sacrifice millions of his own people in a nuclear war, he has stated this. As long as he wins in the end he doesn't care.
He is insane and countries like France are trying to make compromises with him.
If he isn't stopped he will do his best to destroy everything good in this world.
Persian culture used to be the most beautiful rich culture and now Iran has suffered for so many years under terrible leadership and religious zealots I wonder how Persian culture has fared?
Unfortunately, if we go to war with Iran it would be U.S., Canada, Britain, Israel against Iran, all the Arab countries in the mid-East who felt like joining, and probably China (which has endless soldiers because of its enormous population).
It would be a very tough battle with huge losses for the entire planet.

Answer 2

No, the US does not dictate policy for other countries, unless they threaten the world. C'mon, If Iran gets nukes, we will be lucky if another cold war is the worst thing that happens. I personally like the idea of handing them some with remote detonators inside, or just something that makes them go off instantly if ever launched.

It really is ok for the US to have them, because we'll never have the balls to actually use them. It'll go to comittie, and get argued, then it will leak to the press, and public opinion will destroy the notion... and whoever said it will get voted out or fired.

Most of the countries that have them are that way... they care too much about what the rest of the world thinks to actually press the button. Except perhaps Israel. And the Middle East (*mostly*) has already shown time and again that they *don't* care what the rest of the world thinks. So, as they would be so likely to actually *use* them, they cannot be allowed to develop them.

Oh, sure... drop our pants and let all the guys who hate us to take pot shots. Disarmerment will never happen, because there is not and never will be that kind of trust in this world...

Answer 3

I say we give them some nukes. How many do you want,5? Here you go, but if you knuckleheads use them we're gonna turn your country into a sheet of glass.
(Of course they should have a remote control off switch that we keep hehehe)

I want to add that if Iran wishes to have nuclear capability that they abide by the mandates set by the world organizations in charge of overseeing these activities and allow unrestricted access by these organizations to ALL their nuclear manufacturing and research facilities. Unless they (Iran) are willing to do so, then they have no "right" to possess nuclear capability. As I understand, this is the problem the U.S., Nato, The E.U., and other organizations have with Iran, they are refusing access for inspection. Nuclear power (weapons) in the hands of radicals is a very grave concern for the entire planet.

Answer 4

My personal conviction about this is that the best thing to do would be to send in a team of international inspectors to check up on what exactly they are doing. I'll almost guarantee you though, that Bush is somehow going to find justification for bombing their nuclear facilities, and by doing so, likely start world war 3. Even if he's got to stage yet another catastrophic terrorist attack worse than 9/11 to do so.

Answer 5

First you have to ask"Why does Iran need a nuclear program?" Do they need the energy. Do they have a shortage of oil from which to generate electricity. No and no. So, why do they want it?. Obviously to manufacture weapons grade material. Should we take them out? Of course. But we won't. To many Americans can not remember what happened with Germany. Appeasement DOES NOT WORK! But we will be reminded the hard way. As did France, England, Poland, Russia, US, and etc. etc. etc.

Answer 6

Yeah!! The U.S. is the only nation that should have nuclear missiles by the thousands pointed all around the world. We should just nuke North Korea, Pakistan, Israel, France Great Brittan, India, China, and Russia too. Take out all the threats now while we can!!!!

Answer 7

So, you want to go around attacking any country that has the audacity to claim they are sovereign nations? Anyone who doesn't roll over and allow the US to dictate their internal policies gets attacked? That's your plan?

Iran has a nuclear program. There is no evidence they have or are developing nuclear weapons. Even if they are, they have not used them or attacked anyone else with them.

We're not invading Pakistan or England or North Korea or France or India or China and demanding they surrender the nuclear weapons we know they have. So, what's the justification for attacking Iran based on the theory that they might have?

Answer 8

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We should disarm ourselves first so nobody else has the excuse to have them as "self defense". Besides, mass scale nuclear attacks are so last world war and it is just a matter of time before all nuclear weapons becomes obsolete not because there are no replacement parts for the busted transistors but the whole concept of reckless destruction is NOT an advantage in any sort of major conflict in the future.


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Answer 9

You're right. I just hope we don't play tittle winks with Iran the way we did with Saddam. It took us 17 resolutions to take him out! I think the president of Iran is even more dangerous than Saddam.

Answer 10

Couldn't agree with you more, the longer we let this situation linger without dealing with it, the more problrms we'll deal with later. The same way we should have dealt w/Iraq when Saddam first thumbed his nose at the world back in the early to mid 90's.