The only way ultimately to defeat it is by a regime change and the imposition of a Western style puppet government into Tehran because they believe that they cannot kill the technical knowledge or the will to move ahead with enrichment. I think there are two triggers that we should watch.
So that if it’s no longer appropriate because the world has moved on and life is different or because of a changed circumstances then a jurist, it has to be a jurist, it’s not a political decision but a qualified jurist, Hujjat al-Islam or [inaudible] can actually change the law and a new fatwa can be issued very easily. It doesn’t need parliamentary or a pew but there is a majority in Iran now of people who argued that it was a mistake never to go down this route
They’re saying actually this whole proliferation process that the West had is actually back to front because actually it’s pushing people ultimately towards a weapon, not preventing them because this process of going around and just threatening states we’re going to bomb you to the stone age if you don’t do what we tell you actually has ended and that’s what happened of course with North Korea.
I mean they’d agreed a process of giving it up but then more requirements and more requirements were imposed. I mean it was all agreed and there was going to be money put in and a new process and then the extra demands that Washington imposed on top of the original agreement prompted the North Koreans to say, hang it, it’s not worth it, I mean it’s much better that we should go for a bomb.
So actually rather than stopping proliferation, acting to stop proliferation as the West says it’s doing, it is actually encouraging proliferation. That’s the Russian view. [Dmitry] Medvedev said that, the Vice President said that quite recently.
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