Date published: 2005/09/17
The BBC says:
The Iranian president has gone before the United Nations to insist that his country has an "inalienable right" to produce nuclear energy.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the General Assembly Islam precluded Iran from having atomic weapons and he strongly criticised US arms policies.
And he invited other states to play a part in Iran's nuclear programme.
The US earlier demanded that Iran should "abandon forever its plans for a nuclear weapons capability".
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the General Assembly at the beginning of its session on Saturday that countries like Iran threatened the "effectiveness of the global non-proliferation regime".
Ahmadinejad is a reprehensible man representing a reprehensible regime but Iran morally has as much right as the US (and Britain, etc.) to have nuclear energy and/or nuclear weapons. The world should worry about nuclear weapons falling into non-governmental hands but that just means the US should be working with the Iranian regime. Instead the US continually threatens Iran for no real reason other than that Iran does not kowtow to the US. (The neocons would of course try and pretend that the US does not like Iran because it is a reprehensible regime, but the US supports and has supported many reprehensible regimes.)
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