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It has been nearly a week since Israel’s illegal, unprovoked
assault against Iran, which has targeted their nuclear facilities, and
killed top Iranian military leadership and nuclear scientists. The
defense for this attack comes from the hysterical warnings of the same
intelligence networks which gave us the bogus story of Iraq’s weapons
of mass destruction, now saying that Iran intends to develop its own
nuclear weapon, which it absolutely cannot have. This narrative is
hysterically repeated by media, think-tanks, and other networks,
despite the fact that Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, told CNN’s chief correspondent
Cristiane Amanpour, yesterday, that the IAEA has “no proof” that Iran
has been developing a nuclear bomb. U.S. Director of National
Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, on March 25th, had also announced the
U.S. Intelligence Community’s verdict that Iran was not building a
nuclear weapon, and there was no evidence to suggest that Supreme
Leader Khamenei had authorized the nuclear weapons program that he
suspended in 2003.
Another question one might ask is, how many people in the United
States know that Israel has been in possession of secret, illegal
nuclear weapons since approximately 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day
War? Why hasn’t anyone called for Israel to get rid of their nuclear
weapons? Also, why hasn’t there been a call by nations to make
Southwest Asia a nuclear-free zone? Yet, as the ‘ignoble liars’ behind
the endless wars in the Middle East repeat to us, “Iran cannot have a
nuclear weapon.”
The Trump Administration has been caught in this trap it seems,
with wild, contradictory statements being issued by the President
himself, such as disregarding Tulsi Gabbard’s assessment on March
25th, or calling Tucker Carlson, a noted MAGA supporter who has been
raising the alarm about Trump sabotaging his presidency by getting
into a war with Iran, “kooky.”
Reality has emerged in other corners of the world, for example, at
Russia’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which
has 170 nations represented, despite Russia supposedly being isolated
from the rest of the world. There, on the sidelines of the conference,
Russian President Putin responded to a snarky, hostile question from
Reuters Executive Editor Simon Robinson, about Iran’s nuclear weapons
program, reiterating the potential for regional cooperation in
ensuring Iran’s access to peaceful nuclear technology, and ensuring
security in the region:
“A second and very important point, which everyone is talking
about, and so I will only repeat what we know and hear all the time,
is that nothing has happened to Iran’s underground facilities. I
believe that in this context it would be correct to join forces to put
an end to hostilities and to find a way for the conflicting sides to
come to an agreement, so as to ensure both the nuclear interests of
Iran, including in the sphere of nuclear energy and other peaceful
uses of nuclear power, as well as Israel’s interests regarding the
unconditional security of the Jewish state. This is an extremely
delicate issue that calls for extremely careful actions. However, I
believe that a solution can be found.
“Overall, we could work with Iran, taking into account its plans to
continue using and further developing non-military nuclear
technologies, in particular in agriculture, medicine and so on, which
are not related to nuclear energy, but we could also work with it in
the sphere of nuclear energy itself. What makes me think so? The
reason is that there is a sufficiently high level of trust between our
countries. We have very good relations with Iran. We could continue
this work and ensure Iran’s interests in this sphere.”
This proposal, along with Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call for a new,
security and development architecture, are to be discussed immediately
with people. Not, “What is Trump going to do? Does he have a plan?”
That is impotent, and not in the domain of reality. To get a sense of
what’s actually going on, Bill Jones of Executive Intelligence Review,
and Prof. Cliff Kiracofe, former Senior Professional Staff Member of
the United States Senate on Foreign Relations, will provide a top-down
overview of the strategic situation, and how to act.
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