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Balls. Big balls.
By 
Issandr El Amrani | US
Issandr El Amrani | US
Guess who wanted to sell nuclear technology to Iran back in the 1970s?
Read on.
Lacking direct evidence, Bush administration officials argue that Iran's nuclear program must be a cover for bomb-making. Vice President Cheney recently said, "They're already sitting on an awful lot of oil and gas. Nobody can figure why they need nuclear as well to generate energy."
Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.
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Reader Comments (2)
Ah yes, but you forgot to tell you readers that 30 years ago Iran wasn't run by theocratic nuts.
sigh.
I think my readers are aware of that.
The point is being responsible about nuclear proliferation applies then just as now, particularly when you consider how nasty a regime the Shah's was -- even if it's not as nasty as the current one.