![]() ![]() Pompeo presented his demands as "shifts in Tehran's policies." Actually, they are more akin to asking a leopard not merely to change its spots, but to become a vegetarian. It would have been fun - a maraschino cherry atop Pompeo's sundae of a dozen demands - if he had included a 13th: Iranians must become Methodists. Pompeo's demands include halting all uranium enrichment and development of ballistic missiles, openness to unfettered inspectors, ending aid to terrorists and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, withdrawing Iran's troops from Syria, and behaving neighborly toward its neighbors. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has listed 12 "basic requirements" Iran must fulfill in order to avoid "the strongest sanctions in history" - assuming, perhaps fancifully, that Russia, China and other nations will tug their forelocks and comply with Trump administration ukases. This, however, adds less to global security than is subtracted from it by the fact that there are two more nuclear powers (Pakistan, North Korea) and there will be a third if, as seems certain, Iran is determined to be one. Today there are fewer nuclear weapons in the world than there were during the Cold War. The exact origin of the phrase Upper Volta with missiles is unknown, but since the 1980s, this definition has often been applied to the USSR. Six years later he was seeking $348 billion for a 10-year modernization of the U.S. Like an anthropologist doing fieldwork, in Upper Volta Yanko González collects language from street corners, grocery store aisles, cocktail hours, and historical sources, laying data bare with a poet’s meticulous hand. Speaking in Prague in 2009 at the dawn of his presidency - six months before he harvested the first purely anticipatory Nobel Peace Prize - Barack Obama embraced the goal of ridding the world of nuclear weapons. and British - and Russian - security guarantees. Not enough is made of this: In 1994, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union left Ukraine in possession of the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal, it gave this up in exchange for U.S. pressure, dismantled his pursuit of nuclear weapons - and later was toppled by U.S.-backed insurgents. ![]() Much has been made of the relevance, as North Korea might see it, of the fact that after America toppled Iraq's Saddam Hussein (which would not have happened if he had had nuclear weapons), Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, responding to U.S.
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