The Iranian "threat"

Commy

From Bill blum's anti Empire report.


" * Iran has no right to nuclear weapons: Yet, there is no international law that says that the US, the UK, Russia, China, Israel, France, Pakistan, and India are entitled to nuclear weapons, but Iran is not. Iran has every reason to feel threatened. In any event, the US intelligence community's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of December 2007, "Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities", makes a point of saying in bold type and italics: “This NIE does not assume that Iran intends to acquire nuclear weapons.” The report goes on to state: "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program ."

* Ahmadinejad is a Holocaust denier: I have yet to read of Ahmadinejad saying simply, clearly, unambiguously, and unequivocally that he thinks that what we know as the Holocaust never happened. He has instead commented about the peculiarity and injustice of a Holocaust which took place in Europe resulting in a state for the Jews in the Middle East instead of in Europe. Why are the Palestinians paying a price for a German crime? he asks. And he has questioned the figure of six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, as have many other people of all political stripes.

* Ahmadinejad has called for violence against Israel: His 2005 remark re "wiping Israel off the map", besides being a very questionable translation, has been seriously misinterpreted, as evidenced by the fact that the following year he declared: “The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon, the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom.”3 Obviously, he was not calling for any kind of violent attack upon Israel, for the dissolution of the Soviet Union took place peacefully.

* Iran has no right to provide arms to Hamas and Hezbollah: However, the United States, we are assured, has every right to do the same for Israel and Egypt.

* The fact that Obama says he's willing to "talk" to some of the "enemies" like Iran more than the Bush administration did sounds good: But one doesn't have to be too cynical to believe that it will not amount to more than a public relations gimmick. It's only change of policy that counts. Why doesn't Obama just state that he would not attack Iran unless Iran first attacked the US or Israel or anyone else? Besides, the Bush administration met with Iran on several occasions.


http://www.killinghope.org/bblum6/aer70.html

jlew24asu

dont they have elections coming up? heres to hoping that asshole president gets elected out and there is a new Islamic revolution dethroning the religious nutjobs running the country. one can only hope.

Byrnzie

Good job the U.S did of overthrowing the Iranian President in 1953. Another example of U.S interference and contempt for democracy that really worked out well for them.

Cosmo

The thing is proflieration. It's bad enough that a place that's as unstable as Pakistan already has them... the last thing we need is a Fundamentalist Theocracy that believes in devine rights becomes nuclear capable.
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Which is also why I am against our becoming a Fundamentalist (Christian) Theocracy. I don't have a thing against Christianity... I have a thing against Theocracies.

catefrances

jlew24asu wrote:

dont they have elections coming up? heres to hoping that asshole president gets elected out and there is a new Islamic revolution dethroning the religious nutjobs running the country. one can only hope.

sorry jlew but thatd be like US citizens actually using the 2nd ammendment as it was intended and getting rid of a domestic enemy.