Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi opened the 16th summit of non-aligned nations by calling for a world-wide ban on nuclear weapons.
Sounds fair to me. His is by no means the first voice to make such a plea, a plea that is routinely ignored by those countries that already have nuclear weapons.
If you look at who is attending the Tehran conference you'll find at least three countries who already posses them and a lengthy list of countries that have "civilian" nuclear programs that could conceivably be weaponized in short order. That's how India and Pakistan joined the nuclear club.
Insofar as we can believe the fear-mongering, that's the path that Iran is taking too, which is why we have been treated to an endless stream of "all options on the table" rhetoric for the last twenty years. If we hypothesize an actual strike on Iran to prevent this, what do we suppose will happen afterward?
Regardless of whether such a strike sets back Iran's nuclear ambitions by two years or twenty, there are at least a dozen other countries who will take away the lesson that they'd better have the ultimate trump card in their decks sooner rather than later. Nuclear proliferation will proliferate as never before.
What kind of a world will we have then?
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