Iran's Nuc program started under the Shah?

[ewagner]

Here's a great article by Fareed Zakaria about Iran and a warning to Bush* not to make "hollow threats". I thought this was interesting:

In fact, Iran's nuclear program was started by the shah in the early 1970s with American support.

and a link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8942221/site/newsweek/

There are lots of reasons to be suspicious of Iran. But the real question is, Do we want to try to stop it from going nuclear? If so, why not explore this path? Washington could authorize the European negotiators to make certain conditional offers, and see how Tehran responds. What's the worst that can happen? It doesn't work, the deal doesn't happen and Tehran resumes its nuclear activities. That's where we are today.

This is a rational approach to Iran but I doubt Bush* will listen to anybody.