No Rationale for Presidential War on Iran

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The president says Iran must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. In his February 24 speech to Congress, he said of Iran’s leaders, “They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’”

This is untrue, as we have heard “those (not-at-all) secret words” many times.

For decades, Iran has declared that nuclear weapons production would violate principles of the Quran, the government’s holy book...