If Jerome, Melo, and others want to argue "let's get out of the way and let Iran follow the path to becoming a nuclear power",,,if that is a fair characterization, and I'm not sure it is,,,,but let's ask them to make that argument.  If others want to support an approach of the world supporting the nonproliferation treaty, and are fearful of Iran with its threats to Israel, let them support their postion.  

I think you are misrepresenting the positions, while also unecessarily reducing the number of positions to two.

For instance, I support the NPT but am not particularly concerned about Ahmadinejad's anti-Israel rhetoric because it has no teeth: Israel is the country with the 200 nukes outside the NPT. A also think we should get out of the way of Iran's nuclear energy development, while working to prevent nuclear weapons proloferation.

The Bush administration has recently started making noises about the NPT being unenforceable, implicitly saying the IAEA is irrelevant (as the UN was said to be irrelevant if it didn't go along with what the US wanted in 2002/2003). I interpret this as a pre-emptive strike on the IAEA should it not report to the UN Security Council in the harsh terms that the US wants.

Iran is not known to be in violation of any of its international obligations (we'll see about the IAEA report when it's out), and the US has a long history of violent overt and covert meddling in other nations' affairs, including a long history of meddling with Iran prior to 1979, even though it has been erased from the US institutional memory. From the CIA world fact book:

Known as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and the shah was forced into exile.

No mention of British occupation during WWII, of Mossadegh, of the Shah as a brutal, US-friendly dictator... 44 years of the last 40 conveniently wiped off the record.

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