Acta Diurna

Now that the Americans do not have Saddam Hussein anymore to play the role of public enemy number one, they need a new one. Since 2006, they found him: the Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions. He passed the casting easily: a bearded man who criticizes the American imperialism and who flaunts himself with the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Nobody could play this role better.

But what’s so dangerous about Iran getting nuclear power? Absolutely nothing.

George W. Bush and his friends tell everybody that Iran’s goal is to make nuclear weapons. They’re jumping to conclusions. Actually, it is not in Iran’s interest to do it. A nuclear bomb is totally useless nowadays. As soon as Iran would have developed its first weapon, the country would be wiped off the map by Israel. The former Prime Minister Ehud Barak said it: “We can’t tolerate Iran as a nuclear power.”

In addition, a recent report of the American intelligence published at the end of 2007 maintains that Iran stopped its researches to getting nuclear weapons back in 2003, two years before Ahmadinejad became president. Yet the United States of America disregard this proof and still blame their enemy.

So why does Iran want to control the nuclear power? There’s only one reason and the USA forget to mention it: it’s essential for the After-Oil. In less than forty years, Iran will not be able to count on petroleum anymore, according to experts. The country will need nuclear power to avoid sinking economically and to continue being a great power in the Middle-East. But that the USA can’t admit.

Jean-Philippe Chognot