Iran’s nuclear ambition is a rational security response to encirclement

Evidence

Does not the threat of an atomic catastrophe which could wipe out the human race also serve to protect the very forces which perpetuate this danger? The efforts to prevent such a catastrophe overshadow the search for its potential causes in contemporary industrial society. These causes remain unidentified, unexposed, unattacked by the public because they recede before the all too obvious threat from without—to the West from the East, to the East from the West. Equally obvious is the need for being prepared, for living on the brink, for facing the challenge. We submit to the peaceful production of the means of destruction, to the perfection of waste, to being educated for a defense which deforms the defenders and that which they defend. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 82 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Iran’s nuclear ambitions are rational proliferation in a nuclear neighborhood; Sanctions and withdrawal from the Iran deal incentivize nuclear proliferation; Iran’s nuclear ambitions are rational given its security environment (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Iran’s nuclear ambitions are rational given its security environment #corroborates (0.98)
• The nuclear threat functions to protect the forces perpetuating that danger #complicates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 82