Iran's Nuclear Work

"With God's help, and without paying attention to propaganda, Iran's nuclear course should continue firmly and seriously. Pressures, sanctions and assassinations will bear no fruit. No obstacles can stop Iran's nuclear work." Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

It is, of course, work assigned directly by God to Iran. For Iran's unique position as God's true nation of believers has entrusted that divine work to the Islamic Republic. And no mere mortal state can deny Iran its assigned task, for this is, as the Grand Ayatollah said, its 'nuclear work'. Why, rationally, would its 'nuclear work' be designed on such an exalted call, if it is merely for the production of domestic electricity, as the regime claims?

No one has ever claimed that religion is rational, and Islamism more than adequately goes out of its way to demonstrate that the faithful are well imbued with a fulsome share of mind-feverish fantasies that confuse life and death, good and evil, and the end of days with the nobility of life lived well. None should doubt, claims this man of God, that "the Iranian nation has never been seeking an atomic weapon and never will be", for to do so "constitutes a major sin".

A major sin is never equated with snuffing out lives in a state that casually institutionalizes execution of its citizens for misdemeanors of religious adherence, or denials of spiritual devotion, or deviant sexual practises, or offences against the state, or practising an alien religion, even if its basis is within original Islam. A major sin is not constituted by continually threatening to extinguish an entire nation existing as a neighbour.

Nor is it waging an ongoing, raging war with another neighbour and sending out endless platoons of young boys to meet their deaths at the hands of seasoned fighters to give their own fighters more of an opportunity to seize the battlefield. These are all, evidently relative values and issues of human morality, and who are others to judge, since they are blatant sinners for not submitting to Islamic doctrine?