seymour seymour seymour hersh reported extensionally not to tappel regime but the country. they are regarded by some as pretty nasty terrorist outfits. for a decade starting in 2001, tehran watched as 200,000 american troops across eastern and western borders in iraq and afghanistan. the bush administration openly talked about the need for regime change in tehran which was branded part of the globe's axis of evil. i'm not making the case that any of these policies toward iran should have been altered. international politics is a rough business. but given these realities, is it so bizarre that iran has behaved as it has, or that it has sought to build a nuclear industry that could give it a pathway to a nuclear weapon. would a secular, hyper rational country facing the same array of threats have acted differently. in 1963 john f. kennedy predicted that the world would see 15 to 25 new nuclear armed states within a decade. kennedy's prediction has not proved true because the international community led by the united states has confronted nuclear wannabes with real costs but a