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Zimbabwe’s The Herald:
’Obama Pitching for War With Iran’
12 November 2011
Yesterday’s issue of The Herald, a newspaper published by the government of Zimbabwe, runs an analysis under the headline "Obama Pitching for War With Iran. " After exposing that "any military action could be a disaster for the region," it points to the fact that there are some very good reasons to believe that the allegations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are untruthful. "The report recalls the dossiers produced by the United States and the United Kingdom in 2002 based on a crude mixture of half-truths, lies, and fabrications that were used to justify the criminal invasion of Iraq. In order to overcome the overwhelming public distrust generated by the Iraq war, the United States has been pressing the IAEA for years to put its seal of approval on "evidence" that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons. The vast bulk of material contained in the latest IAEA report is not new, but was supplied to the UN body over the past decade by American, European, and Israeli intelligence agencies. "In October 2009, a confidential IAEA document summing up the intelligence supplied by Western agencies and entitled "Possible Military Dimensions of Iran’s Nuclear Program" was leaked to the New York Times. The leak was a deliberate attempt to circumvent then-IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei, who was critical of its dubious content and refused to publish it. "In 2002, ElBaradei earned Washington’s undying enmity when he flatly contradicted the U.S. lie that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons. In December 2009, the U.S. and its allies finally succeeded in replacing ElBaradei with a more pliable IAEA director, Yukiuya Amano. "As Amano himself explained to a top U.S. diplomat in a cable subsequently published by WikiLeaks, he was ’solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program.’ The key annex to Amano’s latest report, again entitled ’Possible Military Dimensions to Iran’s Nuclear Program,’ is striking only for the paucity of additional evidence. "Central to the allegations is information supplied to the IAEA by the U.S. in 2005 about the so-called ’alleged studies’ by Iran into aspects of constructing a nuclear bomb. The source of more than 1,000 pages of what were purportedly Iranian documents was said to have been a laptop obtained by American intelligence." |