[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Just the latest in a long list of things we've done to piss them off. It was partly us who was responsible for overthrowing their democratically elected and popular Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadeq in the 50's, in the 60's and 70's we supported Iran's Shah who was terrorising his people, we supported Saddam in the Iraq-Iran war, we've derided Ahmedinejad ever since he got into power and it was us who was the leading country in calling for sanctions on Iran, is it any wonder our two countries are at complete loggerheads?

Most of the "evidence" that Iran is developing nuclear weapons is dodgy and questionable, and it's beginning to resemble the build up to the Iraq war. Even if they do want the bomb then so what, everyone else in the region has one - Israel, Russia, Pakistan, India, who are we to say it's fine for those countries to have nuclear weapons and not Iran?

President Ahmadinejad is such a trustworthy, balanced kind of leader, isn't he. Hard to see why we don't trust him. Personally I'm relieved we're not waiting till we've got thermonuclear missiles heading straight for our collective arses before someone does something. And you keep saying "we" when you mean the United Nations.