Nuclear Enrichment Plants in Iran

While we are debating and investigating our involvements in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran plans to make “hay” in the Mid-East front yard. In all honesty, it is very unfortunate we have to keep an “eye” on the world because there are a number of absolute nut-jobs wanting nothing but to disrupt peaceful life on earth.

The current administration and our current “main stream press” are all over themselves going after Sarah Palin for “Going Rogue,” but what about an entire nation going rogue. What about the damage to all nations that will I think without doubt effect all nations if the Iranian government keeps pursuing “the nuclear option.”

Some will trace the vehement determination of Iranians to assert their own power over what they claim is their own destiny, back to US, back to events after WW2. In particular “our” support of re-installing the Shah back in the 50’s is considered a major imposition of “foreign” intervention into the workings of Iran. And that may well be so. History is fraught with nations imposing themselves on other nations, even within nations. But that is what it is, history. The stakes are quite a bit higher now with the potential of nuclear weaponry placed in the hands of radical pot stirrers. We need to pay attention here.

Iran’s assertiveness on the global stage—especially its defiant pursuit of what it sees as its sovereign right to a nuclear program—is in part the product of traumatic events that have shaped its national consciousness over the course of generations. In fact, all of 20th-century Iranian history can be seen as leading to this confrontation. That history has been dominated by a single burning passion: to destroy the power that foreigners have long held over Iran.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/iran-fury.html#ixzz0YNjYP6fV

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