This is my rebuttal to your recent edition that contained a letter to the editor, entitled, “Put Iran on par with other Nations”. The writer’s solution to bring Iran into the club of nations who possess nuclear weapons is to “just give them one”. He asks, “What would they do with it, use it against whom”?
Well Iran’s President has publicly stated that the holocaust never happened, and they want Israel annihilated. He further wrote any government who desires to possess a nuclear weapon is rife with insanity; then later queried why the Iranians are not allowed any modicum of national defense?
He stated Iran has not attacked anyone in over 200 years, when in fact Iran committed an act of war only 31 years ago when it attacked and overthrew the U.S. Embassy and kidnapped and held 66 U.S. citizens captive for 444 days.
To this day the government of Iran celebrates the anniversary of this act of war against the United States. The U.S. could have vaporized Iran, but instead waited them out in order to secure the lives of our captured Americans.
We have no desire to wage war against Iran. However, based on the inhumane rhetoric of the Iranian government to annihilate Israel and wipe it off the map; isn’t it imperative the Iranian nuclear weapon/ballistic missile delivery capability be scuttled!
This does not mean war needs to be waged. UN sanctions have been repeatedly rebuffed by the Iranian government – they are ineffective and do not work.
The civilized world cannot sit back and watch as Iran loads a nuclear warhead on one of their newly developed missiles and commits another holocaust against Israel.
Two options come to mind: (1) Overthrow of the tyrannical government from within by the Iranian people. The Iranian people have frequently demonstrated against their own repressive government and want it replaced. Unfortunately the U.S. government has neither voiced strong public support for these demonstrations, nor found a way to help them achieve their goal. (2) Israel may be compelled to launch pre-emptive surgical military strikes to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons development and their delivery systems to maintain their survival.
Based on this administration’s cool attitude toward Israel, they may have to go it alone.
Fred V. Fuller
Dundee
