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Understandably, the Iranians are infuriated. Congress has the nerve to accuse Iran of terrorism, while US troops are waging two illegal wars in countries bordering theirs. They have granted U.N. inspectors access to Qom, begun negotiations with the U.N. in Vienna, and even tentatively agreed to export most of their enriched uranium.
Last week IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei briefed the New York Times about Qom:
"It's a hole in a mountain... nothing to be worried out". "The idea was to use it as a bunker under the mountain to protect things."
This whole business of enrichment is a non-issue anyway because Iran has only 1600 kilograms of low-enriched uranium, unsuitable for an atomic bomb. Even if the Iranians had weapons-grade uranium, they could not make it into a bomb under the auspices of the IAEA. Iran simply cannot produce a nuclear weapon.
The only nation in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons is our psychotic ally, Israel. The Jewish state reserves the right to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear infrastructure at any time. This from a country that refuses to allow U.N. Inspectors access to their arsenal, or sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Although nothing is official, there are unconfirmed reports that Israel already plans to attack Iranian nuclear targets after Christmas. According to the French weekly Le Canard Enchaine, the Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has secretly briefed his counterparts from The United states and France on Israel's war plans.
Ephraim Sneh, a former Israeli deputy defense minister, told London's Sunday Times;
"If no crippling sanctions are introduced by Christmas, Israel will strike...If we are left alone, we will act alone."
The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, has stated that a nuclear armed Iran would pose an existential threat to Israel. During a briefing in Washington, the Admiral also implied that US naval and air forces could be involved in an Israeli assault. Even if the United States does not join in, they would certainly provide intelligence and logistic support.
Israel and the United States have just concluded their largest ever joint military exercises. The Israelis want US backing to crush Iran's nuclear ambitions, while the US is desperate to halt Iran's oil trade in euros. That's why we are probably going to war with Iran, and probably sooner rather than later.
The American oligarchy is playing a very dangerous game, risking another war in the Middle East to save the US dollar. They've already destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan, killing at least a half-million people. And they've spent the world's money doing it.
Americans do not pay for the trillion-dollar security apparatus that wages these global wars. It's the Chinese, Middle Eastern banks, and Sovereign Wealth Funds who buy our debt. If they want to conduct trade, they have no choice but to finance this war machine.
Since the financial crisis began, the United States has flooded global markets with trillions of dollars worth of US Treasuries. Nobody wants them, and soon the world won't have to buy them. The only question is, will our empire collapse before we start another war.
