• What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or the US bombing Iran?
• Will our children ever live in a world without nukes?
• Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted
with a weapon that mass-murders?
• Will a nuclear explosion change the climate before climate
change does?
In Mullahs Without
Mercy, Geoffrey Robertson explores these and other awesome questions that
arise from Iran'’s potential for acquiring the bomb. The scramble for nuclear
weapons by brutal or unstable regimes poses the clearest present danger to the
peace and the climate of the world.
This groundbreaking study exposes Iran’s crimes against
prisoners and dissidents, perpetrated by the very same mullahs who may soon
have their fingers on nuclear triggers. But it argues that the US has no legal right
to attack, as Israel – hypocritically hiding its own nuclear arsenal – demands.
In this vividly written and authoritative book, one of
Britain’s highest profile legal minds shows how the mushroom cloud hovering
over the Middle East might yet have a silver lining – forcing the world to
reassert the rule of international law, which Could lead to the elimination of
a weapon with the power to destroy us all.
“This disturbing book explores the options that face the world as
it stumbles, like a sleepwalker, into the perils of a new nuclear age. Fearsome
weapons of mass destruction are mixed in a witch’s cauldron with religious fanaticism,
blind cruelty and unbending national pride ... A well-timed and unsettling
analysis of an unfolding crisis.”
The
Honourable Michael Kirby CMG, former president of the International Commission
of Jurists
Buy the book here.
OUT NOW: Mullahs Without Mercy by Geoffrey Robertson QC
- November 07, 2012 09:42
- Holly Smith