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Nuclear Weapons For Iran? No. It's The Road to Extinction

Comment by Larry Ross, December 6, 2005

This article gives an excellent case for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and for other states to acquire them who might become potential US targets.

However in the case of Iran, according to Scott Ritter and other experts, the US is almost ready to strike and as the following article illustrates, US media is daily conditioning the US public that Iran is an enemy that should be attacked before it gets nuclear weapons and attacks the US. US media gloss over the fact that the USA, Russia, China, Britain, France, Pakistan, India, Israel and perhaps North Korea, have nuclear weapons. But if Iran is even suspected of getting them, the media portrays this as an end-of-the-world scenario and the conditioned American people believe it. It's okay for the US, Israel and Britain to surround Iran with thousands of nuclear weapons, but doomsday if Iran gets a few, the US propaganda teaches. If Iran reacts to this US/Israeli threat by starting to make nuclear weapons, that will be the 'proof' the US now lacks, and would certainly be used as a justification for the already planned US or US/Israeli attack on Iran. Scott Ritter's excellent paper, delivered at a Traprock sponsored event in Amherst Nov 17, 2005 is available at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/podcasts_transcripts/

Iran, if it started to make it's own nuclear weapons, would only be presenting the US with the excuse it needs but now lacks. It would provide substance for what were US lies.

But is there any way that Iran can prevent a massive attack by the US - possibly involving the use of nuclear weapons? Using the Iraq war as an example, the Bush Administration may make war on any state, even nuclear war, when it chooses to do so; using any justification and lies well designed to fool the US public, as it did with the Iraq war. As Hitler said: "The bigger the lie the more people will believe it."

The danger of a US/Israel nuclear assault is high as many informed papers on this subject show. Thus the risk of escalation to more and wider wars with more use of nuclear weapons is also very high. It can quickly become a runaway situation which nothing can stop. That can mean the death of most living things on this planet.

George Bush, his administration and the so-called 'coalition-of-the-willing' nations including Britain and Australia are willing to take this and any other risk.

Nevertheless there are many things that could be done to reduce the risk if there was sufficient energy and resources. A massive educational campaign, about the new nuclear policies, plans to use nuclear weapons, the truth about Iran and it's experience of Western colonialism and CIA-installed Shah government; lobbying people, in the USA and elsewhere, full page ads in major US and other papers about Pentagon plans for nuclear war and the dangers of escalation and proliferation, lecture tours and media interviews by both Iran experts and nuclear experts - well publicised, etc. Careful analysis of Iran's policies, in order to suggest new ways to reach the US public and other publics and governments. In other words it is not a matter of thinking 'nothing can be done' so much as thinking lots could be done to avert war and reduce risks if enough energy and resources were mobilised.

Any thoughts on this may be addressed to us at: nuclearfreenz@lynx.co.nz

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Nuclear Iran? You bet!

By Mike Whitney, December 5, 2005

Is there a case to be made for allowing Iran to develop nuclear weapons in the interests of peace? Or has all the air been sucked out of the debate by American and Israeli demagogues who dominate the airwaves?

The case for a nuclear Iran doesn’t emerge from fear-mongering or saber-rattling, like the alternate view, but from reason and respect for widely accepted facts; both of which are sadly missing from the analysis appearing in the western media. Any reasonable person can compile the evidence, weigh the facts, and draw the very same conclusions as myself. Regrettably, they will have to swim against a torrent of misinformation broadcast daily by an entire industry devoted exclusively to deception and propaganda.

The problems in the Middle East are clear and indisputable despite 30 years of obfuscation designed to promote the continued occupation of Palestine. Just this week, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on 6 separate items which reinforced resolutions 242 and the 1967 borders of the Palestinian state.

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