Well I personally am more against Nukes for reasons that are mostly non-religious (but religion also plays a part), though with Khamenei and Khomeini giving fatwas against them I assume they hold mostly religious viewpoints on the matter.
Religious: Typical humanitarian reasons... kills without discrimination... radiation poisoning can harm after the war... killing civilians intentionally is obviously frowned.
I agree with everything you said. But it is wishful thinking to imagine a world without mass destruction weapons. Unfortunately not all humans play it fair and not all of them think the way you do so as long as there is anything that can give them the upper hand in a conflict, they will go and build it. I wouldn't even be surprised to hear that there are currently nuclear warheads placed in orbit ready to be released on any poor nation that cannot retaliate.
Oh, I'm not saying such a world is easily attainable. Humans are too bothered about short-term self interest than long-term survival. Perhaps we'd actually need to have a nuclear war for humans to realise this, similar to how after WW2 countries were brought together to avoid a similar conflict and make the UN (even the UN is totally useless now, its the thought that counts...).
Iran should immediately acquiesce to US demands and accept Israel's right to exist, forget about the Palestine issue (they'd be wise to follow the Arab world here) and looks for areas of cooperation such as the fight against the Islamic State and Al Qaeda/nusra/fsa etc in the neighborhood.
bad deal ?
nevermind:
sometimes you just have to fold..
no, I'm srs as hell
We acquiesce to no-one's demands but our own.
Improve relations yes. Make mutually beneficial deals, yes. Total and utter submission? Hell naw.
the optics will have to be carefully managed, so important.
We acquiesce to no-one's demands but our own.
Improve relations yes. Make mutually beneficial deals, yes. Total and utter submission? Hell naw.
well maybe you should, specially when someone many times powerful can easily knock your teeth out. Obama is history, gone forever, you're dealing with a completely new beast here.
I haven't concluded anything, in fact I agree with those analysts and am happy to see Iran join the international trade community and grow and prosper.
Bush was a warmonger surrounded by madmen like John Bolton. They actually drew up a plan to take out the nuclear facilities, they gave up when they saw how difficult it would be.
Bush was worse.
