While the West worries about the program's military aspects, the Arabs see it as a threat even in its civilian version. Iran's only nuclear plant - at Hellieh on the Bushehr Peninsula - is some 80 miles from the capital cities of Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, as well as from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia's main city on the Gulf. "There was agreement that we would be the first victims of any mishap in the Iranian nuclear plant," says a participant."
The possibility of a true accident is bad enough. But the Shia Persians' hatred of Sunni Arabs is not too less intense than their hatred of Jews. The Iranians have no love for the Gulf Arab states that Ahmadinejad has dismissed as mere "gas stations."
Wouldn't it be convenient for Iran to have a nuclear meltdown at their Gulf shore power plant when the winds are blowing to the southwest across the Gulf into the Arabian Peninsula?
Who would retaliate against a horribly tragic "accident?"
