Strip out the gossip and the diplomats-as-spies and the please-attack-Iran parts, and what you get from Wikileaks's latest is the very scary news that the Iran probably has the weaponry it needs to attack European cities. Iran went shopping all over the globe, our Danger Room pal Noah Shachtman reports.
And what's to stop them? "International arms control and non-proliferation agreements are one way the U.S. and its allies keep countries like Iran from acquiring advanced weapons technologies," he writes.
The latest agreement, the New START treaty with Russia, remains on the ropes in the Senate. The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is trying to steer around the obstruction of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), perhaps with help from undecided moderates like Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). "It would be wonderful if President [George H.W.] Bush would come out for the treaty. That would be so powerful and definitely help," Sen. Collins told the paper, in what Talking Points Memo calls a new benchmark for bipartisanship. And if anyone gets a message from arms-control champion President Reagan in the great beyond, that might help, too.
More from Danger Room, which is all over the Iran/Russia connection.
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Mr. Kyl should be ashamed of his obstruction. The list of what nuclear components Iran has and who their suppliers have been should be recited on the floor of the Senate, perhaps during debate on the START treaty. Then let Kyl and his ilk follow the recitation with their "justifications" for obstructing ratification of the treaty.
>> It would be wonderful if President [George H.W.] Bush would
>> come out for the treaty. That would be so powerful and
>> definitely help
Jesus Christ could come back from the dead, preach from the
floor of the Senate, in favor of the START Treaty, and not
even that would change the minds of any of the republicans.
We can end their nuclear program.
We just need to negotiate with them like they are Republicans.
If they will drop their nuclear program, we will give them 5 nuclear weapons.
Iran saw what the US did to a basically unarmed country a.k.a. Iraq. Western Europe has weaponry to hit Iran and there is the issue of Israel and their undeclared WMD's. There is also the hypocrisy of the US being the largest arms dealer in the world....the US is just looking for a way to spend all that money they aren't giving the unemployed this Xmas
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