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| Iran becomes regional superpower | |
| 2006-12-28 | |
In short, Iran has made others view it as a regional superpower and the key player in the Middle East. Its nuclear program remains the top issue, with good reason, because it threatens the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). If Iran implements its nuclear program in the proclaimed format, namely on the basis of its own uranium enrichment technologies, this will deal a death blow to the NPT. Iran's program will trigger the domino effect, encouraging Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to follow suit. The bomb is not the issue, as Iran will most likely decide against creating it. But it will hover merely one step away from it, forcing Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan to cover the same distance. Tehran promises to share its nuclear technology with Kuwait and Syria, which, taken together with Israel's 200 nuclear charges, will turn the region into a nuclear powder keg. | |
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| #3 Iran is also facing a demographic crisis this century, falling birth rates and a rapidly increasing number of retirees to support. They have to strike while their iron is hot, so to speak. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-28 18:01 |
| #2 a long article on the Iran's Oil problem appears at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0603903104v1 (its funded by the National Academy of Sciences). It goes into depth about (with respect to Oil): 1. Iran's difficulties in production 2. Iran's problem with rapidly increasing consumption 3. Iran's problem in domestic refining. The author proposes govt regulated fuel efficiency measures in consuming countries. |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-12-28 09:16 |
| #1 SPACEWAR.com > Eight nations are dev ICBM missles, to include improvements/modernz to already established arsenals. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-12-28 07:03 |