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We all like gossip. But in matters relating to war and geo-strategy, FACTS are better things to rely on then over-hyped gossip. This is the civilized logical path.
The mullahs were brought into power by the USA/UK in 1979, to turn back the development clock in the country.
The mullahs are Luddites who have shooed away 5,000,000 middle class technocrats from the country into virtual exile.
Technocrats who could have been used to make smart things in the country.....but the mullahs aren't interested.
If mullah Iran does sometimes achieve progress in technology, fleetingly once in a blue moon, its because of imports from China and Russia, and not because of its own achievements and inherent technical abilities.....it doesn't have any. It does not seem to want it in an holistic sense, despite the regular announcements of technical break through in this and that in their media.
The new enhanced with greater horse power Talitank (TT)
____________________New York Times: US Intelligence Says Iran Not Developing Nukes
The mainstream media is beginning to report the actual assessments of Iran's nuclear program, instead of the usual fear-mongering
The intelligence community in the United States believe there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb, the New York Times finally reported on Saturday.
The New York Times ran a front page article on Saturday reiterating the consensus view of the U.S. military and intelligence community regarding Iran’s nuclear program, splitting from usual mainstream media coverage which has hyped fear that Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons.
The U.S. assessments that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons and has demonstrated no intention of doing so has been reported here at Antiwar.com and many other alternative news sources, but only now, after successive pronouncements by high level officials going against the grain of the hawkish rhetoric on an impending Iranian bomb has the Times given the issue substantial space.
“Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier,” the report said. “The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.”
(There is no reason to believe Iran even initiated a nuke bomb program EVER, under the mullahs, let alone stop an alleged one in 2007)
The report points to testimony from James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, David H. Petraeus, the C.I.A. director, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all in agreement that there is no military dimension to Iran’s nuclear program.
This reportedly contradicts Israeli assessments and lately those of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which stirred up controversy over Iran’s program, claiming they are “unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear materials and activities in Iran.”
(Amano of the IAEA is a politicized figure who has undermined the credibility of the organization he purports to represents, and its extensive see anything, go anywhere on the spot zero notice inspections in IRAN since 2003......running into 9 years of work. Whilst simultaneously ignoring Israels huge undeclared nuclear doomsday arsenal, and the potential of nuke bomb programs in Turkey and Saudi Arabia......granted that under the terms of the IAEA, the organization only investigates nation which have officially acquired nuclear technology for civilian use ......rather than go on extensive fishing expeditions against nations which may have covert nuke bombs programs....as in the case of South Africa, where the IAEA failed or North Korea. But this is the character of this Vienna based body set up by the USA in the 1950's, and extensively infiltrated and run by Western intelligence.
Should the IAEA continue to produce such ambiguous and dangerous reports which fuels the fire of Israeli war mongering, then the better option for Iran would be to gradually curtail its activities in Iran)
But “intelligence officials and outside analysts,” the Times reports, believe “Iran could be seeking to enhance its influence in the region by creating what some analysts call ‘strategic ambiguity.’ Rather than building a bomb now, Iran may want to increase its power by sowing doubt among other nations about its nuclear ambitions.”
(Conjecture and highly speculative......aliens may have landed from Mars....Jews genetically may be more devious and conspiratorial then the rest of us......the Rothschilds may have started WWI to create the state of Israel.....Hitler was a International Jew banker puppet.....out to kill as many Occidentals as possible, and the destruction of the German nation.
What IS TRUE is that the Supreme Leader in Iran very publicly AT FRIDAY PRAYERS has stated unambiguously since 1989 MANY TIMES that Iran does not seek WMD's, or nuclear weapons. Given the nature of the regime thats a pretty good guarantee certificate and more reliable than an ambiguous IAEA report after 9 years of extensive work in Iran)
Iran is operating under constant threat from the U.S. and Israel. The U.S. has Iran militarily surrounded, has conducted covert attacks along with Israel, constantly threatens Iran with preemptive military strike, etc. In this environment, Iran has tried to abstain from developing nuclear weapons while having the know-how needed to get there; this essentially is an attempt to have a deterrent without actually having a deterrent.
(John how do you know? Do you have information about the mullah psyche and its detailed intentions better than US intelligence.)
As Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the IAEA, said in 2009 “I don’t believe the Iranians have made a decision to go for a nuclear weapon, but they are absolutely determined to have the technology because they believe it brings you power, prestige and an insurance policy.”
Despite this consensus view in the U.S., Washington has continued to isolate Iran, to heap crippling economic sanctions on Iran to support Israel – and refuse to criticize it – even while Tel Aviv has supported terrorist operations against Iranian nuclear scientists. Amid intense pressure from various Western foreign policy elites to wage war on Iran, perhaps to install an obedient regime, the intelligence has removed the one possible pretext: an Iranian nuclear weapon. And even the mainstream news media is now reporting it.
