Germany: An Accomplice to a Nuclear Iran?
Despite tough rhetoric from Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany continues to play a role in Iran’s nuclear program, writes Benjamin Weinthal in Haaretz. Germany’s official public stance looks shaky in the face of the $5.7 billion in deals closed by German firms with Tehran in 2006. Furthermore, a number of German companies are under investigation for the unlawful supply of technology to Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant. Weinthal calls upon Germany to look beyond short-term profit and instead work for long-term peace in the Middle East and Europe.
Tue, Apr 22nd 2008, 15:26
amarjyoti acharya
The second world war is proving very expensive for the world and humanity at large.
Nuclear-proliferation - the beauty of the mushrooming cloud leading a certain US scientist to 'paraphrase' the Bhagvat Gita's "brighter than a thousand suns" (ostensibly from one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poems) expression could not have been a better study in contrast between what the Gita's expression means and what that ejaculation represented!
Long-term peace would be to recognize the more important period of the twenty-first century, and what the future generations would be inheriting. The rhetorics of Germany supplanted to environmental concerns come across as much more relevant than the wonders over a nuclear Iran! What is stopping a nuclear Pakistan from sharing its technologies with Iran - as its first self-proclaimed (in several quarters) 'Islamic Bomb' !
As histories that claim the present and the future? Regression seems in vogue - as long as one can remember the twentith century!