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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > CLINTON: IRAN PURSUING NUCLEAR ARMS, CHEMICAL LEGS
CLINTON: IRAN PURSUING NUCLEAR ARMS, CHEMICAL LEGS
February 18 2010
Washington, D.C. – The first ever recorded use of chemical weapons dates back at least 3500 years ago. According to Hittite texts, plague victims were driven into enemy lands to infect rivals. In 600 BCE, the Assyrians poisoned wells with Rye Ergot,
wiping out entire villages. During the Trojan War, arrows were tipped with poison. The ancient Romans would through dead animals into water supplies. Hannibal filled clay pots with venomous snakes and threw them onto the decks of opposition ships. During the siege of Kaffa, Mongol soldiers hurled the bodies of men who had died of the bubonic plague over castle and fortress walls. WMD’s have been around as long as man was waged war.
In the twentieth century WMD’s took on a horrifying new level of power. Starting in the First World War with Mustard Gas and Anthrax attacks, to the splitting of the atom and the nuclear age, to biological attacks such as the Israeli attacks on Acre or the gassing of Kurds in Iraq, the last century saw more advances in mass murder than any other in human history. It is with the knowledge of those horrors that the world has sought to eliminate, or at least mitigate the threat of such weapons leading to wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and sabre rattling throughout the world. Now, one country that poses perhaps the greatest threat to the security, Iran, Has once again upped that game restarting work on nuclear technology and the United States is not happy about it, not one bit.
“Iran has consistently failed to live up to its responsibilities. It has refused to demonstrate to the international community that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful. The evidence is accumulating that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme,” said U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton at a US-Islamic World Forum. “I would like to figure out a way to handle it in as peaceful an approach as possible, and I certainly welcome any meaningful engagement, but ... we don't want to be engaging while they are building their bomb or other weapons of mass destruction.”
Only nine countries currently possess nuclear weapons, the U.S., Russia, the U.K., France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel which in the eyes of many has left a serious imbalance in the power players of the world.
“The truth is the bomb is a big deal, always has been. Whoever has it has the power. Look at North Korea or Israel. States that in the big scheme of things are really unimportant but because they have the bomb, they are major players in the world. The bomb is an equalizer and that is what Iran has always been seeking, equal footing,” said Scrape TV International analyst Gustav Hander. “Of course with the bomb there is a very good chance that they will seek to invade Iraq or blow the crap out of Israel but at least on the surface that isn’t what they are doing. North Korea didn’t invade the South, India didn’t invade Pakistan so it could be that they are just looking for a little respect.”
The most recent war with Iraq was engaged on the principal that the country had been amassing WMD’s, which it was not.
“Maybe Iran just wants to extend a friendly hand to the rest of the world and all they need to feel is that they have a voice. By reaching out with nuclear arms, they will be able to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots and earn a really important place in the world,” continued Hander. “Things like Anthrax or smallpox simply won’t do it. In order to make a really big mark you need the bomb, that’s just the way it goes in today’s world and Iran is going to pursue that no matter what anyone else thinks.”
It’s believed that Iran already has large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons but that they will only be used if their nuclear ambitions are thwarted.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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