1976: U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry

[Mr Suspicious]

Originally Posted by jewscout

it's cause the govt. we overthrew wanted to nationalize their oil industry and we didn't care for it...so we got rid of it...
peace on earth good will towards men

Jewscout, I am going to put a point of view forward to you, do you promise to answer truthfully and to the best of your ability?

[jewscout]

Originally Posted by Mr Suspicious

Jewscout, I am going to put a point of view forward to you, do you promise to answer truthfully and to the best of your ability?

if it's on topic
yes

[jewscout]

Originally Posted by rogue_believer

Oil makes the world go round and as the US uses a job lot of it, it clearly felt that a new change of mgt would lead to more stability and cheaper oil . .

...well cheaper oil anyways, all the shah did was tick off the Iranians and that allowed a guy like the Ayatollah (did i spell that right?) to take over

[Mr Suspicious]

Originally Posted by jewscout

if it's on topic
yes

Seen as a perfectly decent deal with a reasonable chap like the Shah would appear to have come within a whisker of going very wrong 30 years down the line as the current government of Iran has a leader with bad intentions towards Israel could have be in posession of nuclear material.

Has it come to the stage where this planet is unmanageable?

[jewscout]

Originally Posted by Mr Suspicious

Seen as a perfectly decent deal with a reasonable chap like the Shah would appear to have come within a whisker of going very wrong 30 years down the line as the current government of Iran has a leader with bad intentions towards Israel could have be in posession of nuclear material.

Has it come to the stage where this planet is unmanageable?

no i don't not think so, as first off the planet as a whole really isn't "managed". The UN is rather inept at doing anything at all and world powers such as the US, EU, Russia and China have influence really in their respective regions which sometimes overlap.
i think that though situations look grim we can find a way to overcome such situations. If Iran were to perform an attack on Israel using nuclear arms 1) i believe israel is fully prepared to defend against such an act 2) doing so would put the entire region, not just Israel, in danger and would murder millions of innocent people, jews, muslims and christians; remember that Israel is tiny and fallout can go a great distance from ground zero.
I do not know how soon the world will come to place of peace and prosperity for all, maybe only in the days of Moshiach, but i do not thing the world is unmanageable. A nuclear war on any scale produces no winners and the Iranian president may be crazy but don't think he's that dumb.

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