CHOMSKY: IRAN NEEDS NUKES TO PROTECT SELF FROM ISRAEL

Activist: U.S., Israel pushing Iran on nukes

Noam Chomsky said Iran would be “crazy” not to develop nuclear weapons.  Speaking Tuesday to an audience of over 1,000 at University College, Dublin — Ireland’s largest university — Chomsky said, “No sane person wants Iran to have nuclear weapons,” but added that the Islamic republic had to respond to alleged threats from Israel and the United States, both nuclear powers.  Chomsky, a professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, is in Ireland this week for a series of speaking engagements.