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> Iranian officials say years of veiled bombing threats prompted their country to exercise its “sovereign right” to protect its nuclear facilities by hiding the
by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Iranian officials say years of veiled bombing threats prompted their country to exercise its “sovereign right” to protect its nuclear facilities by hiding them underground.
Sounds far from unreasonable to me.
Man, this article reads like Mossad ordered up some war drum beating.
- hugh_ 17y agoExcept Iran isn't a sovereign nation, it's just a patch of soil run, in practice, by a bunch of unelected mullah-thugs. The doctrine of sovereign rights should be restricted to democracies. The mullahs have no more sovereign right to the territory they happen to control than the Crips or Bloods.
- jacquesm 17y agoThe CIA disagrees with you: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... You may not like them (I certainly don't) but they're a sovereign nation as much as any other.