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n4807g .. why would they .. go tell all the others who are more in
touch than you, including the ex-Ambassadors, that they are all wrong ..


Seymour Hersh: Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=63957542

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Nuclear proliferation: Engaging Iran .. bits ..

This piece was written by six former ambassadors to Iran from European countries: Richard Dalton (United Kingdom), Steen Hohwü-Christensen (Sweden), Paul von Maltzahn (Germany), Guillaume Metten (Belgium), François Nicoullaud (France) and Roberto Toscano (Italy)

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Is the threat to the peace, then, that Iran is actively attempting to build a nuclear weapon? For at least three years, the United States intelligence community has discounted this hypothesis. The U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper, testified in February to Congress: "We continue to assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons.... We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.... We continue to judge that Iran's nuclear decision-making is guided by a cost-benefit approach, which offers the international community opportunities to influence Tehran."

Today, a majority of experts, even in Israel, seems to view Iran as striving to become a "threshold country," technically able to produce a nuclear weapon but abstaining from doing so for the present. Again, nothing in international law or in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty forbids such an ambition. Like Iran, several other countries are on their way to or have already reached such a threshold but have committed not to acquire nuclear weapons. Nobody seems to bother them.

We often hear that Iran's ill-will, its refusal to negotiate seriously, left our countries no other choice but to drag it to the Security Council in 2006. Here also, things are not quite that clear.

Let us remember that in 2005 Iran was ready to discuss a ceiling limit for the number of its centrifuges and to maintain its rate of enrichment far below the high levels necessary for weapons. Tehran also expressed its readiness to put into force the additional protocol that it had signed with the IAEA allowing intrusive inspections throughout Iran, even in non-declared sites. But at that time, the Europeans and the Americans wanted to compel Iran to forsake its enrichment program entirely.

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Of course, a dilemma lingers in the minds of most of our leaders. Why offer the Iranian regime an opening that could help it restore its internal and international legitimacy? Should we not wait for a more palatable successor before making a new overture?

This is a legitimate question, but we should not overestimate the influence of a nuclear negotiation on internal developments in Iran. Ronald Reagan used to call the Soviet Union the "evil empire," but that did not stop him from negotiating intensely with Mikhail Gorbachev on nuclear disarmament. Should we blame him for having slowed down the course of history?
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Juan Cole .. Iraq, Iran and the Nuclear Phantasm: We’ve Seen this Picture

[...] It is likely that Iran wants “nuclear latency,” [...] But the propaganda will say otherwise.

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We’ve seen this picture before. Let’s not fall for it again, this time with regard to Iran.
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Nov 8 2011 Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane, reporting from Washington DC, said: "This is a report the US wanted the IAEA to come out with. We expect the Obama administration to use this report on the international stage to impose stricter sanctions... but to get that, they need China and Russia to get on board."

A senior US administration official told Al Jazeera: "The IAEA report does not assert that Iran has resumed a full-scale nuclear weapons programme, nor does it have a conclusion about how advanced those activities are, but clearly indicates there are activities of concern." .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=68801009

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Another Iranian nuclear scientist murdered in Tehran .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=66214852

it's a long war .. 5 years of sanctions, virus attacks, assassination
of top nuclear physicists .. now more .. with seemingly no good reason ..

then there was the Fatah [Fatwa] by Khamanei .. his repeated statements that there would be no bomb ......

those above are all in this post, with minor editing here ..

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I'm simply saying that if your black-and-white position, all your assertions
are right, then all those who are more informed than you are wrong.

That is my only point in posting this.