Iran Announces Plans to Build First Nuclear Submarine

The issue is proliferation. Iran has funded, trained and supplied some of the most heinous organizations of the past half century. It may be easy to point the finger at Israel, but I don't recall Israel supplying or training insurgent groups in the art of killing American or coalition forces. When Iran stops funding, training, and supplying these organizations of mass destruction, then yes, they by all means should have the access to all the nuclear technology available. But seeing as they cannot be trusted with mortar shells and ball berrings, what makes anyone believe that they would not proliferate any new found nuclear technology. It may seem so distant and far off, places like Basra, Al Qaim or Diwaniya. But when the news breaks out of Seattle, Houston or Miami covered in a cloud of radioactive dust, talk of what the Isrealis have or have not done to the Palistieniens will seem a bit insignificant.

Geopolitics I understand. Moralising I do not.

While I mostly agree with the other reviewer, I can't agree with his 'I don't like the way Iran treats her population, or Israel the Palestinians'.

Let me clarify; if the West is prepared to 'regime change' in Iran, or Iraq or Afghan in order to impose human rights aka Home Security and Gitmo plus Walmart and spiritual void on them, oh and extraordunary rendituion, why don't we invade Israel to regime change the administration in Jerusalem for one more favourable to the Palestinians? And put Israel under sanctions for having nukes?

Is it really our business what other countries do internally? It keeps journos in jobs and newspapewrs, thevmedia in business. It keeps armies occupied invading places for 'moralistic reasons?' (if we want to get rid of the Taliban/al-Qaeda, why not also the Saudi Wahhabis...?).

Western moraklising was confused nonswense in the 19C and its still confused today. What we like about how other countries deal internally is irrelevant. We are not the worlds moral nauthority or policemen. We don't even undwerstand why cultures behave as rthey do. Some journo gets on their high horse (often inspred by govt/commercial agendas) on the moralistic high ground for 2 seconds and everyone is shouting about it. Then trhe spotlight shifts and so does the 'moralistic crowds baying'.

All to no effect. Nothing has changed fundamebntally in 100+ years. Except that thew moralistic West is in decline, but still shouting its moralistic disapproval as it goes under...

Moralistic came from 19c Imperial Euro-American Christian and medieval Crusader ethics (we'll teach the heathen to be good Christians or we'll have their heads'). Nowadays its hollow and meaningless. And basically what other countries do internally is none of our business. We can't affect it, improve it or anything else. We just look foolish ultimately and powerless. Better look to our own bckyards...

And understand geopolitics better

While Israel is allowed nuclear weapons, no one who supports that state of affairs has any right to deny Iran having them. I don’t like the way the Iranian leadership treats its population. But I like even less the far worse way Israel treats the Palestinians.

If Israel is so scared of what Iran might be capable of if it had nuclear weapons, then Israel should stop and think how all of its neighbours feel about the nuclear capabilities it already possesses.

I will believe that Israel wants peace when it stops bullying the Palestinians and disarms its nuclear arsenal. And I will believe the rest of the world wants peace when it forces Israel to comply with the UN resolutions against it, such as building settlements.

As for Iran building a nuclear submarine, I assume it does not fail to comply with any treaties it might have signed, so why shouldn’t it? O.k., it might be a blatant bargaining chip in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons, but that is a problem the rest of the world created by not sensibly negotiating a route to global nuclear disarmament and then following it. ‘As ye sow, so shall ye reap.’