The Nuclear Threat

Depending who you ask, the nation with the obvious nuclear threat will vary. Iranian officials sustain that their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, aimed at generating energy for its growing population, and that it has the right to technology as other nations do. Dictator Ahmadenejad believes that Israel is the only country in the Middle Ease that actually has nuclear weapons, and refuses to submit to international inspections. Along with Israel, the United States also is a threat to the Middle East region in regard to nuclear power. However, the United States and Israel believe that Iran and North Korea are major threats in the proliferation of nuclear weapons due to the enormous increase in their capabilities to produce more.
A year before the coward attacks of September 11, 2001, Robert Walpole, a National Intelligence Officer for Strategic and Nuclear Programs made a statement in regard to the Iranian ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction threat. He affirmed that the proliferation of ballistic missiles and WMD continues to evolve in the world, especially in Iran and North Korea, which becomes a threat to America’s interests abroad, the military forces, and its allies. An important remark was made during the speech given in front of the International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services Subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that the threats faced in 2000 will increase by the year 2015. Such threat will grow by then and the sovereignty of the United States will depend on the evolving relations with foreign countries. Back then the eyes were aiming toward Iran and North Korea; now the threat also includes China, Russia, Pakistan, India, and Venezuela.
In 2003, on a visit to Teheran, International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed El Baradei announced the discovering that Iran was constructing a facility in Natanz to enrich uranium, which is a key element of advanced nuclear weapons; the plant was classified as “extremely advanced,” attempting to world peace and safety and violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Calabresi, 2003). Why the Iranian regime needs massive weapons of mass destruction? Who is the threat to the regime? Ahmadinejad repeatedly demonizes the state of Israel and openly calls for its destruction at every opportunity. Isn’t then the State of Israel the main target? Even worse, he described Israel as a "fake regime" that "must be wiped off the map." Ahmadinejad and all head of regimes that support him call the extermination of six million Jews during World War II “a myth.” Should the United States have consideration with this cancerous regime that tries to divert the reality of history, speeding the process of nuclear capabilities and development of armament, harboring terrorists, supporting the terrorist organization Hezbollah, and stating that Palestinians are living a true holocaust?
The economic and financial deprivation from the United States against the Iranian regime must continue with intense pressure. Any nation that exercises financial transactions with the regime’s Central Bank shall face absolute and immediate economic shut down from the United States.