Don't worry about Iran!

Iran has every right to seek out nuclear power, weapons, or whatever it wants: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20071112_Iran_has_a_right_to_seek_nuclear_capability.html. What struck me most about this incredibly naive Op-Ed was the line in the fourth paragraph from the end, where the writer asserts that Iran needs the weapons to protect itself against various, unspecified "external threats". One can only presume that he means the United States and/or Israel.

Of ourse, the only reason that either one of those two countries could even be considered a threat to Iran would be because the Iranians are seeking to construct a nuclear weapon, but that point seems to escape him.