WTF! If turnabout is fair play, then this announcement from Iran, that it will host a nuclear disarmament conference later this month, would serve as one. This story, carried by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, Iran to hold nuclear disarmament conference, failed to make any mention whatsoever of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, the proverbial ‘elephant in the room’ during all of these discussions about sanctions against Iran, one which the US has long played along with.
Will the conference make known Israel’s nuclear arsenal and propose a nuclear free Middle East?
In contrast to the implications of an Iranian sponsored nuclear disarmament conference, this contradictory report from Antiwar.Com, Obama Claims `All Evidence’ Supports Allegations Iran Developing Nukes, puts a different light on the US position concerning Iran sanctions.
Evidence shows Iran is attempting to develop nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama told CBS on Friday, adding that he felt his administration should continue the pressure on Tehran to cooperate with the international community over its contentious nuclear program.
The claim was just the latest in a long line of similar allegations by the Obama Administration and, as with the previous claims, did not come with any details on what all this evidence was, nor any explanation for why all the evidence available to the American public, up to and including the most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, points in exactly the opposite direction.
Indeed, less than two months ago Obama’s own spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed Iran didn’t even have the ability to enrich uranium beyond 20 percent, let alone to enrich to weapons grade, which would be above 90 percent. Just days after Gibbs made this statement he insisted that the US would not rule out attacking Iran.
In addition to the usual unsourced allegations, President Obama reiterated the repeated false claims from the State Department that the international community was “unified” against Iran, a claim which flies in the face of opposition to the US position by China, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, and other UN Security Council members.
Indeed, China and perhaps Russia may attend the Iranian nuclear disarmament conference.
As Israel’s Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, recently stated: Iran is not an existential threat to Israel. Can anyone deny that Israel’s threats against Iran are anything more than a ‘red herring’ to cover its colonization of the rest of original Palestine?
In spite of his recent confrontation with Netanyahu, Obama also seems to be backing down, playing the old game of carrying Israel’s water. Fences are mended and the colonization continues, as Netanyahu said it would at AIPAC.
