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"IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.
If Teheran indeed resumed its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only "a few months" to produce a nuclear bomb, El-Baradei told The Independent.
On the other hand, he warned, any attempt to resolve the crisis by non-diplomatic means would "open a Pandora's box. There would be efforts to isolate Iran; Iran would retaliate; and at the end of the day you have to go back to the negotiating table to find the solution."'
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I know that some people out there think that America and the rest of the western world dont have a right to hold a nuclear monopoly, but isnt it a bit dangerous to allow a country that is politically unstable, and who's leader has threatened another country with its destruction? We are already in a covert with Iran. Dont believe me? My counsin from Iraq came back and he's fought some mujahadin who used Iranian bombs and weapons, and probably some Iranians themselves. Iran, along with Syria, also sercretly backed the US embassy bombing during the 1980s in Lebanon. How long will it be until Iran starts selling nukes?
I also do not understand what Russia stands to gain out of this. Even if they are afraid of a US hegemony in the middle east, they put themselves up at extreme risk of having Iran selling more weapons to Chechnya, thus resulting in more terrorist attacks like the one at their school in the future. It seems like they are engaging in the same kind of short-sighted dealings that we did during the cold war with dictators for "the greater good".
