A Yellow Cake Walk

[Martin Eden]

40. Perhaps Iran wants the ultimate deterrent. Their greatest enemies -- Israel and USA -- have nuclear arsenals

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, was an agreement between Iran and the United States, European Union, and United Nations Security Council (UNSC) went into effect in 2016. It was the best possible course of action to ensure Iran would NOT enrich uranium to the levels necessary for nuclear weapons.

One might think the Israeli government would breathe a sigh of relief, but not so Bibi Netanyahu. He did not want Iran set on a path of normalized relations politically or economically, and Trump obliged him by trashing the nuclear deal and re-imposing harsh sanctions.

What could anyone expect Iran to do after that, given the history leading up to that point? Iran had a democratically elected government in 1953, but when it decided to nationalize the oil industry Britain had developed, the USA helped stage a coup and appointed the Shah as ruler. After a quarter century of corruption and repression, he was deposed in the Islamic revolution of 1979 that brought the Ayatollah to power. The next year, our guy in Iraq (Saddam Hussein) with intel and WMD precursors supplied by the USA, launched an extremely bloody 8 year war against Iran.

Now we're on the precipice of a major war against Iran that could make the GW Bush fiasco in Iraq look like an actual cakewalk by comparison.

Fuck these goddamned warmongers.

We are not necessarily looking at an either/or choice of horrific war, or letting Iran develop a nuke -- but if it came down to that, I'd choose the latter. Nukes are the ultimate deterrent, but suicide as an offensive weapon when your enemies not only have nukes but vastly superior arsenals. Mutually Assured Destruction kept the Cold War with the Soviet Union from turning into a hot war in which everyone loses.