Expert: Dennis - 11/8/2007

Question
QUESTION: I'm wondering why the USA is saying Iran can't have a nuclear power program when we use nuclear power in America?  The president says it could be a cover for an arms program, but ours can be viewed the same way.
Thanks!

ANSWER: Because for the last 30 years, 25 million Iranians finish their Friday prayers with the chant of "Death to America. Death to Israel!!"

The leader of Iran has stated that he wants to see Israel wiped off the map. He has also stated that he wants to initiate WWIII so the Muslim prophecy of the two sleeping prophets can be fulfilled.

A country that sits on the second largest oil reserve in the world has no need of a nuclear energy program. They have all the oil they need to produce energy.

If Iran begins to produce plutonium they will use it to build nuclear weapons. If they have nuclear weapons they will use them either on Israel, our troops in Iraq, or in the U.S. itself if they can ship them over here.

It isn't rocket science to understand that when a country says "we want you dead" every Friday for 30 years - they really want us dead.

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QUESTION: There are 75 million people in Iran, so only 1/3 of them have feelings this drastic.  It seems just like any other country where people don't agree.   And isn't it obtuse to say that if you live on an oil rich land, we have to use oil?  What about the Kyoto Protocol and the whole movement to break away from fossil fuels?

Answer
The Kyoto protocols are structured to limit CO2 production in developed, first world countries. Third world countries are given somewhat of a pass. In fact, the two biggest developing countries: China and India, have rejected the protocols. China has refused to even consider signing onto Kyoto. Iran doesn't care about Kyoto.

You are missing the basic premise here. There exists a government in Iran that wants everyone to convert to their belief system or die. America and Israel can die now, thank you very much. They have an irrational hatred of the "enemy," as they see the enemy.

Take a look at what happened when the Pope quoted some 13th century ruler who said Islam is a violent religion. The Muslim world erupted and accused the Pope of hate speech and desecrating Islam. The usual number of Catholics were killed by Muslim in the subsequent days throughout the world to show him how wrong he was.

However, the leaders of Iran blamed the U.S. and Israel for the Pope's comments, two countries that have Catholic minorities and no connection with the Vatican were blamed. Iran's hatred is what drives its foreign policy (and of course, the desire to rule the middle east and control its resources).

Kyoto is irrelevant. They are sitting on a mountain of oil (or money if you will), and they can use that mountain for any purpose they want. They want to use it to build nuclear reactors, which will have no impact on their overall energy needs - because they barely have any. Their energy needs are well taken care of for the next 400 years if they utilize their oil.

The have verbalized their desires (death to America and death to Israel). When they achieve nuclear weapons, they will use them, because that is what they are about. To paraphrase a line from the Terminator movie, "That is what they do - that is all they do."

Prior to WWII, Hitler wrote in his book, Mein Kampf, and said over and over again in public speeches, that the Jews were Germany's millstone and the reason for all its problems, and they had to be eliminated. When he came to power, that's what he did. Even though that process of elimination cost money, took resources away from their economy, and from a logical point of view, made no sense - that's what they did. They rounded up as many Jews as they could find, and threw them into ovens.

Today Iran is no different. Its government has told you what they want to do, every day in every way. Why do you think they aren't telling you the truth? When they have the opportunity to attack Israel and/or the U.S. they will. That is why we (the U.S.) is determined to prevent their acquisition of nuclear power (meaning weapons).