Iran has every reason and every right to defend itself against Israel by whatever means it can. The fact that it has not sought to acquire nuclear weapons to counter rabid, expansionist Israel's is a monument to its forbearance.

Nice to read a pro Iranian article for a change. I too get very tired of the constant propaganda portraying Iran as a threat to Israel and even the world, which of course is quite ridiculous.

The author seeks to protect Iran and further demonise Israel by distortions of reality that are breathtaking in their audacity. Israel is not alone in fearing Iranian nuclear aspirations and that nation's historical record of Jew hatred and duplicitous behaviour. There are cogent reasons that U.S. led sanctions are tightening around Iran. Muslim clerics and even Palestinian Authority politicians have publicly stated that they expect Iran to mount a nuclear attack on Israel as soon as a bomb is available, with one saying, "if we had an atomic bomb we would have dropped it on Israel this morning"! The new Iranian President is as beholden to Ayatollah Khameni as his predecessor and to describe this dictatorship's political process as anything other than a single party dictatorship is ridiculous. Iran has a huge investment of both money and prestige at stake after years of promising the Arab World that it alone has the balls to take on and destroy Israel and after decades of deriding successive Arab leaders for negotiating with the "spawn of pigs and apes" and the "great Satan". The author clearly despises Israel and is an apologist for the bellicose tyranny that is Iran.

Congratulations, Graham, for publishing this article. It helps to balance some of the duplicitous propaganda which Singer promotes endlessly.

Oz really does need a Shrink. His comment could have been written by Netanyahu.

Ozshrink. Demonise Israel? It is Israel who are the aggressors. They want to attack Syria and Iran not the other way around.

Philip
Thanks for an article which is not just a reprint of what some politician has said.
It is a change when someone reminds us that we should look at the facts concerning Iran and nuclear weapons. I seem to remember that the CIA (of the USA) has several times reported that there is no evidence that Iran has made any effort to develop a nuclear weapon since 2003.