Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!
The BBC carries the latest report on this issue: Israel PM ‘differed’ with Mossad on Iran, says report.
This report is based on leaked cables from the South African intel agency, but it tracks with what the actual intelligence services have been saying for years – Iran has a nuclear program and can in theory create nuclear weapons, but there is no indication that they are actually working on weapons.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been claiming since 1992 that Iran was working on nuclear weapons and would have a bomb in 5 years.
As Badtux has pointed out in the past, anyone with their own source of uranium can build a bomb from scratch in 5 years. The US did it and no one even knew if a bomb was possible when we started.
If Iran was really interested in building a bomb in 1992, they could have bought a DIY nuclear bomb kit from AQ Khan, like North Korea did and done it in less than 5 years.
Iran started enriching their own uranium because the West refused to sell it to them. They started enriching to 20% when their supplier for that fuel, cut them off. All of the steps towards the so-called ‘nuclear weapons capability’ are the result of Western sanctions. The sanctions have back-fired if they were supposed to stop Iran from developing their own capabilities.
Bibi is basing his claims about Iran on his beliefs, not evidence, and it is time to stop listening to him.
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Shades of Real President Cheney differing with the CIA when the CIA said Saddam had no weapons of mass destructing, and dispatching those pencil-necked analyst geeks back to their cubicles to “find” some evidence!
It seems that reality and right-wing politicians are two things that never meet…
They tend to treat intelligence analysts like lawyers and accountants – people who exist to justify bad decisions by management. Besides, Donald Rumsfeld knew Saddam had WMDs because he gave them to Iraq when he worked for Reagan.
“It seems that reality and right-wing politicians are two things that never meet…” – BadTux
American right-wing nut-jobs must have the worst understanding of human nature of anyone in the world. In any confrontation, if they are in charge of American policy, they take actions that are virtually guaranteed to provoke the worst possible response… and anyone not raised by utter idiots could easily predict the inefficacy of those actions. How did America produce so many people of any political stripe who are so goddamned dumb?
Well, Steve, 50% of Americans are below average, and average ain’t so smart nowadays. And they vote.
Enough said.
You can’t expect Congresscritters to say they believe anything that would annoy the people who fund their campaigns or the people who vote for them. Since the Repubs have sold their souls to the below average monied interests, and the below average voters, Congresscritters keep their jobs by denying reality.