C’était déjà un scandale de voir de nombreux pays – y compris, je regrette de le dire, les États-Unis – rester là sans rien faire tandis que le Pakistan assemblait sa propre bombe et que la technologie nucléaire était transférée en Iran, parce que le Pakistan n’était considéré que dans la perspective de la lutte commune contre l’Union soviétique et, une fois encore, contre l’Afghanistan.
It was scandalous enough that many countries – including, I am sorry to say, the United States of America – stood by and watched as the bomb was developed in Pakistan and as bomb-building technology was transferred from there to Iran, because Pakistan was seen from the sole perspective of the common struggle against the Soviet Union and hence against Afghanistan too.
