Sheldon Richman on Iran’s Nuclear Secrecy

For years we’ve heard the steady drumbeat
of news stories about Iran’s secret nuclear plans. What possible
reason could Iran have had for working in secrecy? Simply put,
writes Sheldon Richman, from the 1980s onward the U.S.
government was determined to thwart Iran’s efforts to build even
modest a civilian nuclear program. Why? Iran was regarded as an
enemy of America because its 1979 Islamic revolution had overthrown
a loyal U.S. client, the repressive shah of Iran, whom the CIA had
undemocratically restored to power a quarter century earlier.

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