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I am writing with reference to Point Counterpoint: "Forty-year old nuclear programme," By Jamal Ashraf (April 8).
Iran is only taking tentative steps toward developing its own nuclear device and already, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is threatening to wipe out Israel from the face of earth.
But more than Israel, Iran's ruling Shia Mullahs are a greater threat to their own people and the neighbour Sunni Arab states. As Prof. Azar Nafisi, who was expelled from her teaching position at Tehran University for refusing to wear veil, tells us how the Mullahs are brutalising the country in her book-- Reading Lolita in Tehran. Her story of Iran is a country where the Shiite Mullahs regularly
"hang people in the streets," a country where educated women are considered enemies of the state. Atomic bomb in the hands of such fanatical Shia Mullahs is a greater threat to their own people. By failing to improve the economic condition, Mullahs have lost all their popularity among ordinary Iranian people and only way they can stay in power is by intimidating their critics. A nuclear bomb will provide them with such an instrument of intimidation.
Most Sunni Arab countries are afraid of any nuclear weapon in the hands of Shiite Iran. Although the Sunnis are a majority in the Muslim world, they are concentrated in non-Arab countries like Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, while Shiites are concentrated in Iran and Iraq. This gives a strategic advantage to Shiites in Iran and Iraq. By installing a Shiite-majority government in Iraq, the Americans have actually strengthened the hands of Iran's Shia Mullahs who are now dictating the political future of the Middle East. This has made the richest Sunni country, Saudi Arabia, greatly concerned about Iran's aim to end the Sunni domination of the Middle East.
