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Originally Posted by Lebell
Of course they are.
You don't need expensive and dangerous nuclear power when you are sitting on that much oil.
But what the hell, Israel has nukes, so why shouldn't Iran? Besides, most of the fall-out will dissipate by the time it hits the West coast and my Iodine tabs are in the mail.
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Oil = opportunity cost for any nation blessed/cursed enough to be sitting on it. Whiel Iran could use up all it's own oil and depend on other exports like dates or sand, the best way to keep their econemy afloat is to export their most valuable resource. The more depenant they can become on alternative fuel sources, the better off they will be both short term and long term. By the by, nuclear power hasn't killed even a fraction as much as oil, so the dangerous and expensive power would not be that of the atom, but that of the fossil.