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washingtonpost.com
Israel Warns of Iran Nuclear Plans

By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
The Associated Press
Monday, August 1, 2005; 7:33 PM



JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials expressed alarm Monday over Iran's
decision to resume uranium processing, warning that unless the
international community steps up pressure on the Islamic state, Iran
will develop nuclear weapons.

However, Israeli experts said the world, led by the U.S., should deal
with the problem.

There is a Middle Eastern country which has always categorically refused
international inspection of its nuclear program, but it's not Iran.

There is a Middle Eastern country about whose espionage against the
United States Reagan Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said "It is
difficult for me to conceive of a greater harm to national security", but
it's not Syria.

There is a Middle Eastern government run by the former mastermind of a
terrorist organization, but it's not the Palestinian Authority.

There is a Middle Eastern country that has engaged in the brutal military
occupation of disputed territory for over a generation in defiance of
dozens of United Nations resolutions, but it's not Pakistan.

There is a Middle Eastern regime so beholden to religious absolutists
that a de facto ban on interfaith marriage has been in place for years,
but it's not the Taliban.

There is a Middle Eastern country whose military in the past 36 months
has killed and maimed numerous neutral foreign nationals including
journalists, but it's not Lebanon.

There is a Middle Eastern country implicated in the ongoing investigation
of the fabrication of the "yellow cake uranium from Niger" story leading
up to the Iraq invasion, but it's not Saudi Arabia.

Anybody want to venture a guess as to the single country referenced in
the preceding seven paragraphs?



Middle Eastern? North Carolina?

I was going to guess West Virginia...but only because one of its elected
officials is a former mastermind of a terrorist organization.