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**CamVideoQl** · 12-30-2008, 02:54 AM

But you can't think Iran is more afraid of Kuwait & UAE

I said the Middle East countries are more afraid of each other than Israel; not that Iran is more concerned with an attack from Kuwait. Shiite-Sunni conflict seems to be more in the forefront.

And who is Turkey afraid of?

a nuclear-armed Israel who has promised to stop Iranian nuke development It seems to me that your point was that the violence in Gaza would induce other countries in the region to develop nuclear weapons: watching Israel brutalize Gaza, as it did Lebanon last year, I would want my government to develop a nuclear deterrent at all costs. So if Iran is already afraid of Israel's military vis-a-vis threats against its own nuclear program, what does violence in Gaza have to do with it? Israel has already destroyed a nuclear facility in Iraq; I'm sure the Iranians take the threat seriously without Gaza as an example.

And why assume that Iran is developing nuclear weapons as a defensive deterrence? It's just as likely that it would be used to intimidate its neighbors.

Imagine Iraq post US occupation with a nuclear capable Iran next door and Israel to the west. Which threat would prompt the Iraqi government to develop its own program?

12-30-2008, 02:54 AM	#38
CamVideoQl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	But you can't think Iran is more afraid of Kuwait & UAE I said the Middle East countries are more afraid of each other than Israel; not that Iran is more concerned with an attack from Kuwait. Shiite-Sunni conflict seems to be more in the forefront. And who is Turkey afraid of? a nuclear-armed Israel who has promised to stop Iranian nuke development It seems to me that your point was that the violence in Gaza would induce other countries in the region to develop nuclear weapons: watching Israel brutalize Gaza, as it did Lebanon last year, I would want my government to develop a nuclear deterrent at all costs. So if Iran is already afraid of Israel's military vis-a-vis threats against its own nuclear program, what does violence in Gaza have to do with it? Israel has already destroyed a nuclear facility in Iraq; I'm sure the Iranians take the threat seriously without Gaza as an example. And why assume that Iran is developing nuclear weapons as a defensive deterrence? It's just as likely that it would be used to intimidate its neighbors. Imagine Iraq post US occupation with a nuclear capable Iran next door and Israel to the west. Which threat would prompt the Iraqi government to develop its own program?
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