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Correction: "There are two costs to this very hard-line policy. One is that it justifies very open-ended military operations. When will Iran no longer have the capability to produce nuclear weapons? When it would take them two years to develop a weapon, or five years?

Second is that we would garner more support from the Iranian people by allowing them to have nuclear power, and deny them nuclear weapons through an inspection regime. This poll .. http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/feb10/IranElection_Feb10_rpt.pdf .. in 2010 is revealing. 55% of Iranians want to develop only nuclear power (and not develop nuclear weapons, an encouraging fact in its own right), but 65% would be willing to only develop nuclear power in exchange for the lifting of U.S. sanctions. This means that pursuing a path of sanctions gives the U.S. leverage with an additional 7 million Iranians, casting the U.S. in a favorable light in the minds of about 45 million Iranians. On the other hand, action to deny the Iranian people nuclear energy full stop would lose the U.S. support of a majority of Iranians. Only 3%, or 2 million would agree with our policy position."

sorry, i missed the "poll" link in the one this one replies to ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=72605940

apology to the board ..