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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:33 AM
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US leader Biden says Iran may spark nuclear arms race
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8664636.stm

US leader Biden says Iran may spark nuclear arms race
Thursday, 6 May 2010

US Vice-President Joe Biden has warned that Iran's actions risk sparking a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

His warning came in a speech to the European Parliament - the first by a top US leader since then-president Ronald Reagan spoke there in 1985.

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"Wouldn't it be ironic as the Iron Curtain fell... that a new arms race would emerge in some of the most unstable parts of the world," Mr Biden said.

"That would be an irony that our children, our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren would not forgive us, in my view, to allow to come to pass," he added.

Pressure on Iran

Mr Biden's warning echoed the words of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who told delegates at a nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference this week that Iran had violated its obligations and should be held to account.

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howard112211 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 02:37 AM
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1. LoL, but surely it is not Israel who has already started that race.
Talk about double standards.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-08-10 06:18 AM
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2. No, not Iran. It's this country.
Edited on Sat May-08-10 06:38 AM by no_hypocrisy
We had the first one and we were the first to use it. And continue to threaten to use it again.

Russia and China got it to warn us not to think this country could win a war against them in the future. And that's the rationale why Iran would want nuclear weapons as well. They saw what happened to Afghanistan and Iraq. They will not be invaded and conquered.

Even Brazil.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,693336,00.html#ref=rss
Brazil is probably also developing something else in the plants it has declared as production facilities for nuclear submarines: nuclear weapons. Vice President José Alencar offered a reason when he openly advocated Brazil's acquisition of nuclear weapons in September 2009. For a country with a 15,000-kilometer border and rich offshore oil reserves, Alencar says, these weapons would not only be an important tool of "deterrence," but would also give Brazil the means to increase its importance on the international stage. When it was pointed out that Brazil had signed the NPT, Alencar reacted calmly, saying it was "a matter that was open to negotiation."

France, India, Pakistan, and Israel have their own issues concerning their insecurity of sovereignty exclusive of this country. But obviously, they have witnessed how other countries will treat you if you have nuclear weapons or think you do.



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