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Article: COLUMN: United States must use its power to prevent nuclear Iran
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- June 23, 2003
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Robert Vaszari
University Wire
06-23-2003
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Having destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs, the United States and the international community must now focus on a problem that could very well be even more threatening to the stability of the Middle East: The prospect of a nuclear Iran.
The possibility of Iran gaining nuclear weapons capability within the next few years would not only be a direct challenge to the United States' nonproliferation policy, it would also be a deadly threat to our allies in the region.
Iran has a history of supporting terrorist activity in the region. Throughout the 1980s, Iran supported ...