The issue of Iran & the Iran nuclear deal
These two videos (the first 12 minutes long, the second 46 minutes long) summarizes the issue of the Iran nuclear deal;
What the Media Won't Tell You About Iran | reallygraceful
Trump and the Iran Deal | Ryan Dawson, TPS #10
As much as I hate Iran’s fundamentalist establishment, there is no proof that they want to build a nuclear bomb since 2003.
Here’s some excerpts from Episode 337 - The REAL Middle East Nuclear Threat - Corbettreport;
“Theatrical props and dramatic rhetoric aside, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent presentation on the “Iranian nuclear deal” in fact contained no new information.
That Iran had explored a nuclear weapons program prior to 2003 has been known and admitted for years. That they have an archive of this information is not a violation of the Iranian nuclear deal completed in 2015. In fact, if anything, Netanyahu’s presentation actually proved the exact opposite of what was intended: Namely, that Iran is abiding by the terms of that treaty and is not covertly pursuing any nuclear weapons activity. That’s why they had to go back to 15-year-old information and present it as if it was something new and revelatory.”
“Hand-wringing over Iran’s nuclear program is nothing new. It became a mainstay of Western political discourse after an Iranian dissident revealed the Iranian government’s plans for a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz in August 2002. But the surprising fact for Americans and others around the world who get their information from the corporate mainstream media, is that Iran’s pre-2003 nuclear weapons program has long been known and admitted. Since 2003, when the program was scrapped, not a single piece of evidence has been presented (not even by Netanyahu or the Israeli government) that the Iranian government ever pursued anything other than what it said it was pursuing: a nuclear energy program.
Not that that fact has ever stopped Netanyahu from using any opportunity to use cartoon-level propaganda tactics to convince the world otherwise”.
“Of course, Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons, and Netanyahu’s Wile E. Coyote bomb and red-line warnings bore no greater semblance to reality than the cartoon propaganda surrounding Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction.” Not only did the IAEA repeatedly confirm that Iran never diverted any nuclear material into any military program, but even the US intelligence community itself conceded that Iran was not trying to build a nuclear bomb. Most remarkable of all was Mossad’s own assessment that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons.”
As I detailed earlier this year in “We Need to Talk About the Iran Protests,” fearmongering over Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program was the basis for an extraordinary series of measures against the country in recent decades. These measures include “NITRO ZEUS,” a full-scale military cyberattack against Iran, the best-known element of which was Stuxnet, the military-grade cyberweapon co-developed by the United States and Israel that specifically targeted Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz.
Iran’s non-existent nuclear program also provided the pretext for sanctions aimed at crippling the country’s economy, including the de-listing of Iranian banks from the Swift Network connecting the world’s financial institutions.
The fearmongers even went so far as to plant evidence of nuclear weapons involvement on Iran to further justify these attacks.”
But wait! There’s more! Some hard irony:
“But perhaps the greatest irony of all is that it is Iran who has been arguing for decades that the Middle East should be a nuclear-free zone. The idea was first floated by the Shah in 1969 and was first formally proposed by Iran in a joint UN General Assembly resolution, but the idea failed to garner any support. The idea was again raised by then-Iranian President Ahmedinejad in 2006 and yet again by then-Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki in 2008, but these calls to banish nuclear weapons from the Middle East have not even been acknowledged by the West, let alone seriously considered.”
Some 36 American Star Officers (Generals & Admirals), including General Mattis, agree that Iran is not trying to build a nuke.
Generals Admirals support Iran deal at DuckDuckGo
IDF Generals, Israeli Scientists, Israeli Spies, & Israel’s own Nuclear Panel say it (I don’t think that it’s a coiencidence that they’re also not superpartistans for the Likud party):
Israeli generals Iran deal at DuckDuckGo
(For this video, skip to 24:41)
Ali Khamenei has issued a Fatwa (a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar) against nuclear weapons, & Muslims are serious about Fatwas.
Also, the type of centrifuges that Iran has & is using enriches uranium too slowly to viably produce serious nuclear weapons.
Serious weapons-grade uranium must be enriched to 90%. Iran has only successfully enriched their uranium to about 20% (for medical radio isotopes), & the more uranium is enriched, the harder it gets to be enriched further.
Ending the Iran Deal actually hurts America’s power, as that we are unable to trade with them.
And no, we weren’t sending American taxpayer’s money to Iran (that I would oppose if it were the case). What happened was that Iranian assets in the U.S. that were frozen were unfrozen.
Additional reading:
The Iran Nuclear Deal:
Was There Ever an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program?
Iran’s Secret Nukes? Scaremongering Netanyahu Strikes Again
The Latest Act in Israel’s Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign
The Latest Act in Israel's Iran Nuclear Disinformation Campaign - Antiwar.com Original
Iranian Nuke Documents May Be Fake
The Iran issue in General:
Trump's Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech - Antiwar.com Original
The Five Blinding Myths About Iran - Antiwar.com Original
Even if Iran does get a nuke, it really wouldn’t matter. If they dare use it, they’ll be screwed as bad, if not worse, than Israel or the U.S.A.:
WHY IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IRAN HAS A NUCLEAR BOMB
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Onto Iran itself, why do they hate us?
Remember Iran Air Flight 655?
I’m not going to comment on rather or not the shoot-down was justified, or rather or not Captain William C. Rogers is competent or rather or not he is “cold-blooded” sort-to-speak about the shootdown. I will just state the matter of fact that it happened, & the United States Federal Government has not apologized for the incident.
Also, General Wesley Clark has talked about a classified a memo that lays out the plans to take out 7 countries, one of them being Iran.
Is it any wonder that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (the IRGC can be described as a heavily armed religious militia) sends speed boats & missile boats out whenever NATO’s Naval vessels go through the Strait of Hormuz?
Want war with Iran? I hope you enjoy paying higher gas prices, & are willing to sacrifice both Christians & Jews living there.
So don’t incinerate both fellow Christians, &, gasp, God’s Chosen People to make yourself feel like some tough guy.
None of this is to say that Iran is even a remotely free country. A prison that allows for a little bit of religious freedom is still a prison. I’m sure that you’re already well aware of the human rights abuses going on. I even think it’s appropriate to call Iran a shithole thanks to its government & the power of its religious institutions & how people accept having their lives ruled by , though I prefer to describe it more as a hellhole to emphasize how bad its human rights & liberty situation is rather than how bad its environment &/or standard of living is.
“The Iranian revolution was not good. They went out of the kettle and into the fire. They left a foreign corporatocracy only to fall into the arms of a theocratic nightmare. They traded exploitive foreigners for local despots.” - Ryan Dawson’s response to a comment on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/putting-america-18713842).
And is Iran really a threat to us & world peace? The article WHO IS THE THREAT TO WORLD PEACE? CHRISTIANS, JEWS, OR MUSLIMS (The US, Israel, or Iran)! makes a comparison.
The most ironic thing is that the way we can take down the Iranian regime is to stop threatening & antagonizing them.
Andrew Illingworth, an Australian journalist & military analyst, who himself is half-Persian & knows the social & political issues in Iran, states that the only reason why the Iranian people tolerate their government is because Iran is being antagonized by the United States of America,
If Western military powers stopped threatening Iran, the government would no longer be able to justify its existence & tyranny, & the people would overthrow it.
This is said between 45:51 & 46:40, & 49:00 & 51:52 in the video “Major Libya Updates”.