Iran will have to recognize Israel

ARTICLE: Tehran and Tel Aviv in nuclear war of words, By Michael TheodoulouThe National, October 22. 2009

Of course Tehran angrily denies:

Iran yesterday angrily denied Israeli media assertions that senior nuclear officials from the two countries held confidential talks last month in what was portrayed as the first direct exchange between the two arch enemies for 30 years.

Because the reality is, once Tehran truly goes nuclear, it ONLY gets what it wants (deterrent recognized) IF it recognizes Israel.

Each confirmed there were no direct, bilateral talks. The deliberations were meant to be confidential. But leaked accounts of the conference infuriated Tehran, which said the notion of any sort of meeting with Israel was absurd. "The Islamic republic does not recognise the Zionist regime," said Ali Shirzadian, a spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation.

No, not yet. But if you want nukes in order to join the big boys club, then you have to do big-boy things.

(Via WPR Media Roundup)

Comments

[hass]

Ummm....There's no evidence that "iran wants nukes" and quite the contrary, they've offered to open their nuclear program to joint US participation -- hardly something they would do if they wanted nukes. And fyi, you can't "recognize" a country that refuses to identify its own borders.

[William R. Cumming]

Tom! my understanding is that Israel supported IRAN in many ways during the Iraq-Iran War from 1982-1988! Is this true? Is there open source documentation or a book available that covers this subject?

[joe Michels]

Iran doesn't want nukes?? Now that's funny.

I like the way Tom chose his words, it's like he was talking to Iran as if they were a adolescent. Do we really want adolescent to get nukes? The iranian leadership has a lot of growing up to do. I guess we hope they don't get a teenager temper-tantrum when they have nukes.

[David Sutton]

I've seen some pretty adolescence behavior on the part of nuclear armed western leader in the past few decades, so if its an argument about maturity - no matter how immature or recalcitrant some administrations, parliaments etc no one pushed the button.

Yes its a leap of faith to argue that a nuclear armed Iran will act like a responsible adult not a kill crazy teenager who just got their license and stole a six pack. But they face a punishment of transgression far greater than a grounding. A glass crater.