Nuclear Iran
Should United States confront Iran for its behaviors for enriching uranium? For decades the extremist Islamic regime of Iran has been the number one enemy of U.S and its allies particularly, Israel. Also, Iran has been supporting the terrorist groups such as Taliban and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan to kill American troops. Moreover, during the past ten years Iran has been working to become nuclear which can allow them to make nuclear bombs and weapons to wipe Israel off the map which they have claimed before they would without any hesitation. While, Iranian government insists that it has no intentions of expanding its nuclear program to make weapons and it is only for peaceful purposes, ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Kharrazi, secretary general of Iranian Hezbollah, stated, “We are able to produce atomic bombs, and we will do that(1).” So, there is a great conflict between Middle Eastern countries and Arab countries that are U.S’s allies such as Israel and Saudi Arabia to let Iran become a nuclear power, and a greater conflict inside U.S because of the two invasion wars that have cost trillions and thousands of lives. Therefore, there are two sides to this important issue that whether U.S should let Iran to become nuclear or shall we air strike them and maybe cause a war that we will not be able to afford? Even though Iran persists that there are no harmful intentions and they are only enriching uranium to help their technology and hospitals, I believe U.S and its allies should stand up united to Iran and stop giving them any freebies and confront them militarily because of Iran’s behavior in the past and present; also, proving themselves as not trustworthy to U.S.
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...eneral of Iranian Hezbollah, February 14, 2005, written for CQ Researcher, cqpress.com, the Iranian leadership is far more dangerous than most Westerners realize, argues a longtime Iran hawk.
2. Senator Byrd, Robert, chairman, senate appropriations committee. Written for CQ Researcher, November 2007, arguing with President Bush’s administration over attacking Iran.
3. Bakhtiari, Farshid, a young computer salesman, February. Quoted in Kim Murphy, “ Iran reformist want U.S. to tone down”, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 11,2007, p.A1
4. Rubin, Michael, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute. Rubin argues that the sanctions won’t be effective due to Iran’s history of untrustworthiness, cqpress.com, pro/con part, pp3, November 11, 2007.
5. Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, the 62nd U.N. assembly, unmistakably referring to the United States, sep. 26,2007, www.president.it/en/.
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