Kuwait Times

Published Date: March 23, 2009

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti writer Abdullah Al-Hadlaq has urged the Gulf states to suspend their diplomatic relations with Iran and deal with its real agenda. He insisted that the country's nuclear program was not adopted for peaceful targets despite Iran's pretence that it was, in reality being a military program.

Al-Hadlaq pointed out that the available gas reserves in Iran could supply the country's energy requirements indefinitely, meaning that it therefore has no need for nuclear energy, which shows that the true reason behind its adoption of the nuclear program is a military one.

The renowned local author said that Kuwaiti and Gulf diplomacy is being negligent in failing to reveal the Persian danger and warn the peoples of the Gulf region against it. He insisted that Kuwait should join regional or international military alliances despite the possibility that doing so would lead to large-scale losses, saying that even major losses were better than losing everything.

Al Hadlaq added that there are two main political schools of thought confronting each other in Kuwait nowadays, one of them a progressive, pragmatic one which believes in science and freedom and the other a regressive, reactionary group which abides by old, backward-looking ways under the pretext of religion, adding that adherents of the second faction may well be receiving foreign backing.