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Comment by za3faran

15 hours ago

It's amazing to see the justification done by some people to attack other sovereign countries. Did not america learn from the fake WMD fiasco with Iraq?

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kyboren  15 hours ago

> fake WMD fiasco

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-stored-highly...

  The IAEA estimates that Iran had 440.9 kg of uranium enriched to up to
  60% before last year's Israeli-U.S. attacks - enough, if enriched further,
  for 10 nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick.
  
  The agency and Western powers believe the bulk of that is still intact.
  Washington wants Tehran to give it up.

I seem to have missed the IAEA report on Iraq's 400+ kilos of HEU.

  • epolanski  13 hours ago

    Jm2c but I wonder how people can be surprised that Iran wanted to build a nuclear weapon, especially after the US under Trump's first presidency pulled out the nuclear deal struck under Obama and cornered Iran even more.

    Like do people in US realize that countries around the world take notes about what happened to the Libyas and Iraqs and many others (like Colombia recently) and see that the US will attack other countries with impunity.

    • kyboren  12 hours ago

      Who cares what the mullahs want?

      The US feels threatened by Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and has the military force to stop them, probably. Diplomatic avenues bore no fruit. Military force is now being used to--hopefully--end the threat definitively.

      Yes, of course we are aware of what happened to Ghaddafi. It's very en vogue to point out the game theoretical incentives to develop nuclear weapons.

      But seemingly people never bring up South Africa's disarmament. And nobody ever mentions that game theory also incentivizes the US prevent their adversaries from developing nuclear weapons where possible.

      Giving up or stopping development of nukes may invite attack. Refusing to stop developing them may also invite attack.

  • za3faran  15 hours ago

    >> *if enriched further*

    Keyword there. They said they were not pursuing weapon enrichment.

    Let's also not pretend that the US and israel care about international law, after all, there are arrest warrants by the ICC against israeli officials.