A Different Set of Conversations

[kirisutogomen]

"We want Iran not to have nuclear weapons precisely because we can't bank on the nature of the regime changing. That's exactly why we don't want to have nuclear weapons. If suddenly Iran transformed itself to Germany or Sweden or France then there would be a different set of conversations about their nuclear infrastructure."

I'm pretty sure that if Iran suddenly turned into Sweden, the different set of conversations that would ensue would no longer be about nuclear infrastructure at all, and would be much more ontological or at least would include some profound social constructivist questions.

Comments

[dpolicar]

I'd meant language translation... what I was actually thinking was that there Sweden would be, with all of their records in Persian. But I suppose the records would become Swedish records at the same time.

As for the population question, I don't see the problem. Nobody vanishes, groups of 8 (on average) simply become one person. Sure, it's not a 1:1 mapping, but so what?