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As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.

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Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

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The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

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The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

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I like Gramsci. He's an important person.

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I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

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When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

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It is easy to dismiss the world as 'irrelevant,' or consumed by 'paranoid anti-Americanism,' but perhaps not wise.

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I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

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The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: December 7th, 1928

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