Untwisting Reality

U.S Policy on Iran

• By Poetry X
• 8 February, 2015
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It’s not not a surprise that despite the Iranian people elected Hassan Rouhani, a much more conciliatory leader than the polemic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Finally, the U.S. started negotiations with this country, but we must not forget the hostile agenda the the United States has pushed against this nation.  No doubt the Iranian political system is far from perfect, and civilians need a lot more freedom, however, Iran has done many important moves to get along with the U.S. not being able to get a favorable response from Washington – in part because of the zionist and saudy lobby. The two facts that we must not miss is that the U.S. has directly affected the history of that nation and that Iran is primary producer of oil. In part, that was the reason Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. let (to say the least) the so called sunni extremist group ISIS – to go against the shiite Iranian regime.

In 2009 Iran disclosed the project for building a second uranium enrichment plant in Qom and the Western powers accused Iran of trying to build up a nuclear bomb. This was used as a pretext to impose sanctions on that nation. The US insists Iran is producing nuclear weapons despite Iran being a signatory to the IAEA (Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty) but Israel, along with India and Pakistan, is not and claims it will never be. Article IV of this treaty states the signatories have the right to have enriched uranium for peaceful purposes. The IAEA states Iran is in compliance with the old Code 3.1 of the Subsidiary Agreement and has a 100% accounting of Iran’s nuclear material. Basically, the IAEA is in complete control of the situation and declared, no nuclear material has been diverted. Iran has followed the guidelines of the IAEA since 2003. In addition, Iran voluntarily agreed to the protocol of inspections, as well as the Subsidiary Agreement. This, expecting Europe and the US would recognize the legitimacy of Iran’s right to get a plant of enriched uranium for peaceful uses. Iran fully complied with these additional and voluntary protocols, but in 2007 withdrew from these agreements citing the noncompliance of Europe and the US. Despite all the Iranian efforts to avoid a conflict, Israel and the US want to bomb Iran anyway.

Since Iran stopped its program for nuclear weapons in 2003, it has tried to avoid any hostilities but the US has blocked efforts to solve this problem at least twice.  In 2005, Germany, France and England were about to close a deal with Iran but the US pressured England to veto the deal. [OpEdNews.com Jun 6th 2012] In addition, on May of 2010, Brazil and Turkey got Iran to agree to a new deal to fulfill additional steps to eliminate any suspicion of Iran building a nuclear bomb.  However, that deal was also over turned due to the no acceptance from the US. [Reuters May 16th 2010] In addition, multiple specialists and government authorities have stated that Iran does not represent an international threat. US director of national intelligence James Clapper, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, nuclear expert Joseph Cirincione, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Defense Leon Pannetta, along with the 16 US intelligence agencies have said, in one or other way, Iran does not represent a threat to the US. Indeed the voices calling not to attack are coming even from Israel.  A poll shows that 65% of Israeli Jews think “it would be the best if neither Israel nor Iran had the bomb, even if that means Israel giving up its nukes”.  Even Benny Gantz, an Israel Military Chief, and Yuval Diskin, a former head of Israel’s spy agency, have said Iran is not likely to obtain nuclear weapons [Marjorie Cohn Jan 17-2012 / Huffington Post Apr 28-2012].

As we can see, evidence shows Iran is not up to get nuclear weapons, but that’s not the plan as the US and Israel expected. According to many experts, the multiple assassination attempts against Iranian scientists, under suspicion of having a nuclear expertise, have been carried out by the Israeli intelligence, possibly with US assistance.  At least five of those attempts actually did kill the wanted targets with multiple “unwanted victims.” No less controversial have been the attacks on alleged nuclear facilities. That includes cyber-attacks on centrifuges and even an explosion on a missile facility that killed an Iranian general and 16 other people in 2011. On top of that, we must add actual provocations from the US by spying in sovereign Iranian territory. In a remarkable action, in one of those spying missions, Iran brought down a CIA RQ-170 drone on November of 2011.  The US tried its best to hide this embarrassing happening but eventually it had to admit the Iranians did manage to get that drone.  We must note that for the first time in many years, since the Shah was overthrown, the US took a polite attitude and asked Iran to give the captured drone back.  And in a very incredible gesture from the Iranian government, they offered a miniature replica of the captured drone in any color the US wishes (just to let us know how friendly they are, Iran offered a pink drone replica to Hillary Clinton) [Arabian Business Jan 19-2012].

Let’s be aware that the super powers control the media and they take any minuscule chance to demonize the Iranian regime, even if that implies the fabrication of lies [Press Tv Apr 1-2013]. The US and Israel constantly accuse Iran of being a threat to peace.  The press made a parade of fear mongering back in 2009. Iran tested some missiles right before Iranian officials were to have talks with the US and five other nations in Geneva; these were the first direct talks between the US and Iran in more than thirty years. What has not been mentioned is that the Obama administration secretly had sold Israel 55 deep-penetrating bunker buster bombs, which could be used in any future military strike against Iran [USA Today Sep 26-2011]. The press fails to mention Israel has a massive nuclear weapons capability. Israel along with the US, both launch massive air exercises demonstrating their ability to fly hundreds of aircraft to strike targets like Iran.

The truth of the matter is that as much as Iran is far away of being a model of a friendly regime, it is not considered to be an aggressor country because Iran has not attacked other nations for hundreds of years. However Iran has been a key victim of the western corporate interests. The end of the line is that there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran and that the nuclear plant in Qom is not a threat to international peace and security [Democracy Now Sep 29-2009]. Yet, Iran still is a fantasy of the weapon industry to guarantee massive profits in coming years and that’s why the western powers have been directing a massive campaign of demonization and provocation against Iran.