Iran Mullahs Speeding Up Nuclear Weapons Program: Anyone Interested?
by Majid Rafizadeh • April 27, 2024 at 5:00 am
By backing, arming and training Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Iran launched a proxy war against Israel, leveraging the conflict in part to divert attention from its nuclear ambitions.
The calculated move not only serves Iran's immediate interests in destabilizing its adversaries – the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and most of all the United States, which it would like to see out of the region, so Iran could presumably have the Middle East all to itself. The diversion of the Gaza war also aligns with its goal of eradicating Israel.
These barbaric perversions [by Hamas on October 7, 2023] underscore Iran's leaders' comfort, if not pleasure, in employing any means at hand to achieve their objectives. They most likely do not look at their devastation abroad as triggering instability, but, on the contrary, as a means to attaining its hegemony, after which there will be peace -- for themselves, at least.
From Iran's perspective, acquiring nuclear weapons is the easiest way to significantly complete its takeover of the region and "export the revolution": "We shall export the revolution to the whole world. Until they cry, 'there is no god but God [Allah]' resounds over the whole world, there will be struggle."
Unfortunately, the plan poses an existential threat not just to regional stability, but to global security. Iran has been moving into Latin America, possibly to target the "Great Satan," the United States.
In the midst of the Hamas-Israel conflict -- while the world's attention is fixed on the war Iran and Hamas began -- Iran's ruling mullahs have seized the opportunity to advance their nuclear program.
By backing, arming and training Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, Iran launched a proxy war against Israel, leveraging the conflict in part to divert attention from its nuclear ambitions.
The calculated move not only serves Iran's immediate interests in destabilizing its adversaries – the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and most of all the United States, which it would like to see out of the region, so Iran could presumably have the Middle East all to itself. The diversion of the Gaza war also aligns with its goal of eradicating Israel.
While the mullahs' proxies wage war on the front lines against the "Little Satan," Israel, Iran has been maneuvering in the shadows, exploiting the chaos to make significant strides in its nuclear capabilities.
