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A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday said something not all that controversial. "Some countries say they are concerned that Iran's activities might be diverted towards non-peaceful purposes in the future," he said. "When they are talking about future speculation, how can they not be concerned about scrapping nuclear weapons at the present time?" The spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, of course, was referring to the fact that countries now involved in negotiations with Iran over its suspected nuclear program - the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - all have existing nuclear arsenals. Much of the world, especially the Muslim world, has a hard time reconciling the fact that the United States owns one of the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons, yet is leading the charge to levy crippling sanctions on Iran because it might be working toward the capability of producing just one.
