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Originally posted by Dreamer128:
Ah.. ye old cynics. What makes you think the evil muslim fundamentalists won't be true to their word? 
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A few choice quotes from our Iranian friends:
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Countries in the Middle-East claim that Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons gives them the right to own them, but for Islamic countries that behave in an often ‘maverick’ fashion to own nuclear weapons is a true nightmare for western governments.
What is interesting, is that these efforts to develop nuclear weapons occurs along clear cultural lines, with Islamic regimes seeing it as their duty to collectively develop a counter to American and Israeli influence.
In 1988 President Rafsanjani declared that Iranians “must fully equip ourselves both in the offensive and defensive use of chemical, bacteriological and radiological (ie nuclear) weapons.”
In 1991, the Iranian vice-president told an Islamic conference “since Israel continues to possess nuclear weapons, we, the Muslims, must cooperate to produce an atom bomb, regardless of UN attempts to prevent proliferation” [emphasis added].
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I'm not convinced that something that is believed so fervently by so many, and even seen as necessary for the credibility of certain regimes can be so easily abandoned...
[ 11-22-2004, 08:51 AM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]