Iran Nowhere Close to Making A-Bomb
by Charles Coughlin
An article in the British press reports “Iran’s efforts to produce highly enriched uranium, the material used to make nuclear bombs, are in chaos and the country is still years from mastering the required technology. Iran’s uranium enrichment programme has been plagued by constant technical problems, lack of access to outside technology and knowhow, and a failure to master the complex production-engineering processes involved. The country denies developing weapons, saying its pursuit of uranium enrichment is for energy purposes. Despite Iran being presented as an urgent threat to nuclear non-proliferation and regional and world peace - in particular by an increasingly bellicose Israel and its closest ally, the US - a number of Western diplomats and technical experts close to the Iranian programme have told The Observer it is archaic, prone to breakdown and lacks the materials for industrial-scale production.”
Starting a war should be done with at least the same deliberation as executing a prisoner. After all, human lives are at stake in both instances. A competent defense and prosecution case should be presented, and an impartial decision should be made. Unfortunately a murderer in the US gets more deliberation and a fairer hearing than nations we target for war. Some people would argue that war should be avoided at all costs. Sweden and Switzerland have avoided war for over 200 years.
Most Americans make the completely wrong assumption that our media is fair, impartial and would never brainwash us into a fighting a wrong war. But prior to World War One, we were mercilessly brainwashed to hate Germans. False stories claiming that Germans were raping nuns and bayoneting Belgian babies were served up as fact to the American public. The Germans were never given a chance to tell their side, in English to counter all the lies against them. Wars sell newspapers. They also boost the ratings for cable news shows. Then there’s the ownership of our media by a tribe of people who specialize in war-profiteering.
The same article notes “A key case in point is that Tehran originally procured the extremely high-quality bearings required for the centrifuges’ carbon-fibre ‘top rotors’ - spinning dishes within the machines - from foreign companies in Malaysia. With that source closed down two years ago, Iran is making the bearings itself with only limited success. It is the repeated failure of these crucial bearings, say some sources, that has been one of the programme’s biggest setbacks. Iran is also believed to be critically short of key materials for producing a centrifuge production line to highly enrich uranium - in particular the so-called maraging steel, able to be used at high temperatures and under high stress without deforming - and specialist carbon fibre products.”
There is no “proof” that Iran is anywhere close to making a nuclear bomb. We have been brainwashed to think that “Iran having nukes” equals a justification for going to war against them. Even if someone buys that premise, there is still plenty of “reasonable doubt.” If it’s wrong to execute an American when there’s reasonable doubt, then it’s more than wrong to make war on phony evidence; it’s evil. And that’s what we’ve gotten from the neocons, more and more evil each year they’re allowed to stay in power.