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September 07, 2007

Thank God America Is Helping Iran Build Its Nuclear Industry

A while back, Cyrus Safdari at Iran Affairs put together a great collection of scanned-in newspaper stories from the seventies about U.S. support for the Shah's nuclear power program.

Posted at September 7, 2007 10:43 AM | TrackBack
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C.f.:

http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/1825_1826.html

Posted by: buermann at September 7, 2007 11:59 AM

If only someone would help Iran build its nuclear industry now, maybe we'd treat them like we did North Korea. It would be a vast improvement over what I think is going to happen.

Posted by: StO at September 8, 2007 06:51 AM

StO, you have said something UNFORGIVABLE. The fact that it is also eminently reasonable is besides the point for some mysterious reason.

Posted by: Jonathan Versen at September 8, 2007 09:54 PM

What a great world we live in. The only way we can get along peacefully is for everyone to walk around with a loaded gun, you know, just in case.

Posted by: rob payne at September 9, 2007 07:44 PM