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Article: Iran's nuclear deception: Taqiyya and Kitman (Part I).
- Article from:
- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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"Chemical bombs and biological weapons are poor man's atomic bombs and can easily be produced. ... Although the use of such weapons is inhuman, the war taught us that international laws are only drops of ink on paper."--Iran's parliamentary Speaker (and future President), Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, speaking two months after the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. (1)
The Western world, Israel, and the United States in particular, face a unique threat: the prospect of a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran, the foremost state sponsor of terror and the most fervently anti-U.S. country in the world. In January 2005, the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate ...