Or so says Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, because, despite the war drums getting louder and louder….
“What can Iran do with a nuclear weapon?” he asked rhetorically. “For example, will they hit Israel? How many Palestinians will die? And you think if Iran hits Israel, their cities will be safe? They will be gone the next day.”
Makes sense, as far as it goes, especially coming from someone whose country is just fifty miles across the Persian Gulf from Iran. But do the Persian Mullahs have any sense? They haven’t made much so far.
















Unless they have a death wish. Except, uh, I believe the mullahs do.
The only hope is they want to live as much as the next person, but then they are promised all kinds of goodies on the next floor…
According to Spengler/Goldman, a declining few Iranians attend mosque or are in any way religious. It’s the clerical leadership we have to worry about, but my guess is that they’re too in love with their perks to want to commit suicide. Wouldn’t preclude them from building the bomb, however.