An intelligent and knowedgeable Conservative voter in the constituency asked this week not that this country actually does the unthinkable but that it should at least think about the unthinkable. That the UK may have its strategy on Iran wrong.
His argument is that whether it's next year or the next decade, Iran will acquire a nuclear weapon. They have the desire and intelligence. The question is; do we want them to arrive at that point (i) upset with the UK (and the west) for it's anti-stance, (ii) with a dubious nuclear capacity or (iii) friends with the UK and a stable and safe nuclear future in partnership with the west?
There is a secondary point he makes about balancing a middle east peace. Two nuclear super powers balancing the middle east peace. A threat that Israel takes very seriously and which may lead to aggressive and escalating military action.
The current British government's view is that Iran is problematic state. George Bush called it part of the axis of evil. Unstable, anti-democratic. It supports terror in other states. The question my constituent asks there is; Is another military conflict the answer or another path to death and destruction when there may be a glimmer of peace through negotiation?
I don't know the answers to any of these but thought his views were worth sharing.
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