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Iran and the Bomb

5-Minute Videos | PragerU

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🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Many countries have nuclear weapons, and many more want them. Only one, though, has its neighbors and the world terrified. That country is Iran. Why is everyone so concerned? Because the Islamic theocracy has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel, sponsors global terrorism, and would leverage the deterrence effect of a nuclear weapon to advance their anti-Western and anti-American interests. Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist for the Wall Street Journal explains the one thing you really need to know in order to understand why we can't let Iran get the bomb -- they may actually use it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Why are so many people with so many different perspectives from the Prime Minister of Israel

0:07.2

to the King of Saudi Arabia so worried that Iran might build a deliverable nuclear weapon?

0:15.6

Or to put it even more simply, why do we have to stop Iran from getting the bomb?

0:22.5

The reason is painfully obvious.

0:25.0

They might actually use it.

0:27.7

Iran's has nuclear weapons.

0:29.9

So does the United Kingdom.

0:32.0

But nobody worries that they will use them.

0:34.9

It's not nuclear weapons that are the problem.

0:38.1

It's who has them and what they might do with them.

0:42.6

We do not worship Iran.

0:44.4

We worship Allah, said Iranian leader Ayatollah Hominay in 1980.

0:49.9

I say, let this land burn.

0:52.9

I say, let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam remains triumphant in the rest of the world.

1:01.2

A militant nation that does not fear its own destruction is a sure threat to its enemies.

1:08.5

And that threat is taken to a whole new level if the militant nation arms itself with nuclear weapons.

1:16.4

Who are the enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

1:20.7

There are three.

1:22.6

The first enemy of Iran is the United States of America.

1:27.2

A common slogan, chanted by Iranians and public rallies, is death to America.

1:33.7

But it's not just a slogan.

1:35.7

Iran has been committing actual acts of war against what it calls the Great Satan for over three decades.

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