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Posted on 12/15/2003 8:13:51 PM PST by nuconvert
When it comes to Iran, why engage in double-speak?
By Reza Pahlavi | 07-11-2003 Gulf News
The US blessing for the joint trip by the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany to Tehran demonstrates a spirit of unity absent in their recent past.
It is understandable that the spectre of the foremost state sponsor of terrorism acquiring nuclear weapons should unite the EU and the US in great fear.
But which is the greater component of that fear: Is it the nuclear state or the regime?
In Iran's immediate neighbourhood, in one of the least technologically advanced regimes, the Taliban's allies demonstrated that all they need is box cutters to use the free world's own resources against it.
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