Posted on 04/17/2005 9:56:52 PM PDT by freedom44
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If Iran succeeds in building nuclear weapons, it could touch off an arms race that leads to the end of civilization, Henry Kissinger warned yesterday. The former secretary of state told a panel discussion in midtown that the world needs to be ready if diplomacy fails to dissuade Iran from halting its nuclear program.
"I do not believe that living in a world with 20 or 30 nuclear states is a situation that civilized life can support," said Kissinger, who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Sir Harold Evans, editor-in-chief of The Week magazine, moderated the forum on Middle East peace, which the magazine sponsored. It was held at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse in Grand Central Terminal.
Ambassador Dennis Ross, a former U.S. envoy to Middle East peace talks, agreed that Iran obtaining atomic weapons could be a "tipping point" that turns the entire region nuclear. Ross scoffed at Tehran's claim that its nuclear program is simply for generating electricity.
In separate comments in Washington, Secretary of State Rice said the United States is waiting to see if Britain, France and Germany are able to deter Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
"If this does not work, then, of course, the Security Council remains an option," Rice said. "And we have made it clear with our European friends that that is, in fact, the case."
Iran is unlikely to produce a nuclear weapon before the next decade, Rice said.
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When Iran finally finishes building it, it will all be too late.
I don't think this is true.
No offence, but you sound more like the demented one, Stingy Dog, this is Iran we're talking about.
Did any one listen to him when he asked Carter adminstration to fully back the Shah of Iran in 1979?
Carter did not listen to what this wise man said and now we are in a mess...
How many times should we repeat the same mistake?
BUMP FOR KISSINGER!
American Iranologist Wills to be Buried in Isfahan, Iran
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4/18/2005
Tehran, Apr. 18 (CHN) – Professor Richard Nelson Frye, a great American Iranologist, has asked in his will for his body to be transferred and buried in the land of Iran, in the historical city of Isfahan.
Frye is an emeritus Harvard professor in central Asian studies who still gives lectures promoting Iranian history and culture.
Frye graduated from Harvard in 1946, taught at several universities including Habibiya College in Kabul (1942-44), Harvard University (1948-90), Frankfurt University (1959-60), Hamburg University (1968-69), Pahlavi University of Shiraz (1970-76), and University of Tajikistan (1990-92), and was the founder of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.
He has written many books on Iran, some of which are “the heritage of Persia” (1962), “the golden age of Persia” (1975), and “Greater Iran, a 20th century odyssey” (2005) which is a memoir of his.
He loves Iran so much that has been entitled as “Irandoust” (the one who is a friend of Iran). The name was given to him first time by Ibrahim Pourdavoud, the great Iranian scholar (1885-1968) who conducted invaluable research on Avesta – the Zoroastrian holy book- and from then on, he himself used it in his writings.
In his most recent visit to Iran last year, Professor Frye succeeded to get the permission of officials of the historical city of Isfahan to be buried there. He wants his body to be transferred to Isfahan and be buried in a tomb in the riverside of Zayanderoud, the river that passes through the city.
“I will write of the Great Iran to the last moment of my life,” writes Frye.
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5131
I believe there are now radiation detectors at container ports. There are many millions of containers.
Thanks to NAFTA, a truck can enter the U.S. from Canada or Mexico with reduced or no inspection.
No doubt the scenario is constantly gamed by those tasked with our security.
At least since September 11, 2001, we have a right to expect that it is.
Henry Kissinger in Years of Upheaval in relation to the Shah and his fall wrote; “What overthrew the Shah was a coalition of legitimate grievances and an inchoate accumulation of resentment aimed at the very concept of modernity and at the Shah’s role as a moderate world leader. The Shah was despised less for what he did wrong than for what he did right. He was brought down by those who hated reform and the West; who were against absolute rule only if it was based on secular principles. The immediate victors were not enlightened dissidents of liberal democratic persuasion but the most regressive group in Iranian society: the religious ayatollahs who identified human dignity not with freedom and progress but with an ancient moral and religious code.”
And the Shah called these groups as Black Reactionary and Red Reactionary gangs... ((Referring to Marxists and Islamists who were trying to fight his reign and I think he was very true))
This is basically how the US would lose sovereignty without a shot being fired.
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More doomsday rhetoric from those who wish to justify the existence of their welfare/warfare state. Big surprise.
As for regime change in Iran, I wish y'all the best of success. Let us know how it turns out. You folks did it once back in '79; I'm sure you can do it again.
Don't forget the regime change in 1953. We're batting 0-2 so far in Iran. Why not make it 0-3?
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