Not one to support every fruitcake leader known to man but all the press (and government grandstanding) about Iran's nuclear ambitions seems over the top.
Hypocrisy seems the right word to describe a government led by a corrupt, inept, religious zealot who is responsible for the invasion of two countries (Afghanistan and Iraq) and the military and diplomatic support of another invasion (Lebanon - by Israel - a country that also has nuclear weapons) in the last 5 years and who has weapons of mass destruction of their own calling for a country that hasn't been at war for 18 years to stop developing weapons.
This is compounded by both India and Pakistan developing nuclear weapons in recent years and getting no effective sanctions for that. No threats of invasions or bombings. Just let them do it.
And the one country that is actually making threats with nuclear weapons - North Korea - certainly isn't being threatened with invasions or air strikes. Even though a person on the board of a company (ABB) who supplied them with nuclear technology, is now a senior US Administration member.
No wonder most of the Middle East thinks the US (and Europe - especially the UK) is full of...it.
No, I'm not advocating the spread of nuclear weapons or technology (at a time when Tony Blair is advocating renewed nuclear power developments), but you haven't got a moral leg to stand on when you're responsible for illegal acts around the world and supporting or ignoring other countries who are doing the same things as Iran.
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