Hoder on a Nuclear Iran

I met Hossein Derakshan (“Hoder”) last year at BlogNashville and covered his talk there. Hoder is an Iranian expat and critic of the current Iranian regime. He currently lives in Canada.

This week he wrote a Washington Post op-ed titled “Iran Needs Nuclear Weapons.”

Hoder fled his native country because of the abuse of power there. He’s spoken out against the Iranian mullah’s manipulation of elections (such as wiping dozens of opposition party candidates off the ballot). He’s fearful of going back because the government may arrest him for his criticism.

Yet he wants that same government to have nuclear weapons. What’s wrong with this picture?

This is the same Iranian government that openly gave conventional arms to Hezbollah a few months ago to wage a proxy war with Israel. Why should we believe they wouldn’t do the same with nuclear weapons?