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 U.S. Role as Iran’s Nuclear Midwife Is NotedPosted on Jan 30, 2006Juan Cole’s Informed Comment: The White House staffers, who are trying to deny Iran the right to develop its own nuclear energy capacity, have conveniently forgotten that the United States was the midwife to the Iranian nuclear program 30 years ago. Every aspect of Iran’s current nuclear development was approved and encouraged by Washington in the 1970s. President Gerald Ford offered Iran a full nuclear cycle in 1976, and the only reactor currently about to become operative, the reactor in Bushire, was started before the Iranian revolution with U.S. approval. Kenneth Timmerman, in Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran presents a misleading description of this plant, claiming again and again that the facility might be used to produce nuclear fuel. | column Advertisement TAGS:
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By Chip, January 31, 2006 at 3:55 pm Link to this comment
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It’s amazing how we forget histories lessons. Our CIA also replaced Iranian leadership in the 1950’s changing the path of that country dramatically. Saddam and Iraq were our friend in the 1980’s. Where will say Pakistan stand with it’s nuclear weapons in say 10 or 20 years? Our country is really in trouble and somehow we’ve got to get together and change it.
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