French warmongering aids Iran's cause

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Thus, come next week's gathering of global leaders at the UN, Iran can take advantage of the counter-French fallout of Kouchner's warmongering, for example by indirectly strengthening Tehran's bid to convince the world that it must accept Iran's rise to the status of a nuclear power.

Simultaneously, this new status confers on Iran a new challenge, that is, how to act as a great power without the benefit of nuclear might, deemed as a "weapon of the past" by Ahmadinejad. This Iran can manage by letting the world know that unlike the states that have nuclear weapons, Iran does not intend to utilize its knowledge to proliferate nuclear weapons and, while maintaining that capability for national-security reasons, is more determined to use its new clout to push vigorously for global nuclear disarmament.

After all, Iran has its own revolution-induced global mission, which sets it apart from the "world domineering powers", to use terminology popular with Ahmadinejad, who must nonetheless do more to propagate the peaceful mission and purpose of Iranian power, perhaps by directly involving Iran in the UN's peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts.

France's isolation due to its blunders on Iran is an opportunity for Iran to shine globally as a humanist leader in the crusade against the ultimate weapons of destruction. And that means making more explicit the Islamist humanist reservoir of the Iranian revolution of 1979, still pulsating in the country's policy hierarchy, and still serving as a compass for foreign policy action, partly buried under piles of militant rhetoric. The time for a new blossoming of Iran's language of peace has arrived, thanks partially to the opposite French rupture.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/II21Ak04.html

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1. I knew this Sarkozy character was going to be bad news.....

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2. Seems to be an idiot. nt