Biden on Iran and the Global Nuclear Threat

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by: Adam Burke
Wednesday (12/05) at 09:56 AM

Nearly 200 people crowded into a meeting room at the Iowa City Public Library on Monday afternoon to hear Sen. Joe Biden talk about avoiding war with Iran.

He quoted from declassified sections of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released Monday that said, "Tehran halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003." Although the NIE said Tehran continues to process uranium, Iran couldn't process "fissile material" into a nuclear weapon before 2009. However, Iran could have a nuclear weapon sometime between 2010 and 2015, according to the NIE.

The presidential candidate said that unlike the rest of the Democratic field, he believes that nuclear proliferation is a greater security threat than global warming. He said that, "a nuclear Iran will spark an arms race ... it is not a very big step to ... a nuclear Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Venezuela."

The event hosted by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council was a foreign policy speech and discussion with the sitting Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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[KingOfLostSouls]

1. it is a bad threat

and a very immediate threat, thanks to bush. who remembers the story from the other week about the chinese sub surfacing during war games? wanna know why? after bush came into office and started throwing his weight around, the chinese began a crash program to speed their military up. they have joint defense agreements with russia.

the criminals in the white house right now wanted this and more than anything, cooler heads need to prevail against a very immediate threat. arms control is a must, I would definitely agree with biden on that. thanks to reheated cold warrior idiots who think we need star wars II and all the other failed schemes, they already have started a new arms race. which was their goal from the get go