OK! Let’s Give Iran Everything It Asks For |
Fine. Granted. All of it. Every point of the ten-point plan. Every sanction lifted. Every asset unfrozen. Every obedient vote at the Security Council. Let us breathe deep and sign the surrender in a steady hand.
Let us see what the world looks like afterward.
What? Enrich all the uranium they want? Granted. Let them produce whatever they want, at whatever percentage they want, in whatever centrifuges they want. Let every ship on the planet pay a war tax for crossing Hormuz, collected by a power that was just bombed. Let them accumulate every warhead that engineering and fissile material will allow. Let them do with those warheads whatever they please afterward.
Let them threaten Saudi Arabia. Let them threaten the Emirates. Let them threaten Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar. Let them threaten Israel. Let them launch, if they dare. One fraternal warning to the Palestinians, though: you will need to leave Gaza and Judea and Samaria before detonation, because geography does not discriminate by creed and radiological fallout does not either. You will need a new country. Perhaps the Prime Minister of Spain would like to receive you in Madrid, with state honors and a brand-new ministry to inaugurate.
Destroying Israel, in fact, has logistical difficulties few in Tehran admit out loud. It is not only that Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa would need to be pulverized. It is that the Islamic Republic will not want to reduce to ash the political project it has worked so hard to build on top of the Palestinian cause. The fallout reaches the neighbors. Lebanon, which barely breathes as it is. Jordan. Syria. Iraq. Iranians in Khorasan itself if the wind blows wrong.
But granted. Let them build the bomb.........