Couldn't We At Least Try Talking with Iran?

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 15, 2011

During the administration of Gerald Ford, the U.S. government supported Iran?s nuclear program. At the time, Iran was ruled by Shah Reza Pahlavi, a brutal militarist dictator whose regime was propped up by a spectacularly vicious secret police agency, and maintained a military configured for regional adventurism.

Despite concerns over nuclear proliferation, the Ford administration encouraged the Shah?s effort to develop nuclear energy as a hedge against declining oil production.

Today, the Islamic theocracy ruling the country insists that its nuclear program is a continuation of the Shah?s efforts ? which were, once again, supported by Washington ? to diversify its energy industry.

Where the Shah openly admitted in 1974 that his government was seeking to build nuclear weapons, the current regime insists that it has no intention of doing so. Yet Washington, which provided the Shah with a huge military establishment and supported his efforts to develop nuclear power, treats Iran?s current effort to develop nuclear power as a cause for war.

During the past sixty years, the U.S. has targeted Iran for a coup, propped up a vicious dictator, encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade that country, and threatened it with pre-emptive war. Given that none of this has worked, wouldn?t it be wise simply to try talking with them?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

No feedback yet