I highly recommend recommend reading Dr Mohammad Sahimi's article in Antiwar.com entitleed "Who's Telling the Truth About Iran's Nuclear Program?" as a pretty comprehensive overview of the lies and distortions about Iran's nuclear program.
Since February 2003, Iran's nuclear program has undergone what the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) itself admits to be the most intrusive inspection in its entire history. After thousands of hours of inspections by some of the most experienced IAEA experts, the Agency has verified time and again that (1) there is no evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran, and (2) all the declared nuclear materials have been accounted for; there has been no diversion of such materials to non-peaceful purposes. Iran has a clean bill of health, as far as its nuclear program is concerned.
This is not what Israel, its lobby in the United States, and its neoconservative allies had expected. Such a clean bill of health deprives them of any justification for advocating military attacks on Iran. The illegal act of sending Iran's nuclear dossier to the United Nations Security Council and the subsequent, highly dubious UNSC resolutions against Iran have also not been effective. So what is the War Party to do?
It has resorted to an international campaign of exaggerations, lies, and distortions. This campaign involves planting lies in the major media and on the Internet, making absurd interpretations of what the IAEA reports on Iran, and issuing dire – but bogus – warnings about the speed at which Iran's uranium-enrichment program is progressing. Such warnings have been around for over two decades. In 1984, West German intelligence predicted that Iran would make a nuclear bomb within two years.
oops! I should have refreshed my browser before commenting. thanks!
Posted by: Amir | February 19, 2009 at 10:17 PM
any link Cyrus?
Posted by: Amir | February 19, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Why not link to the article?
Who's Telling the Truth About Iran's Nuclear Program?
[oops! Fixed it. Thanks
- Cyrus]
Posted by: b | February 19, 2009 at 02:58 AM