A while ago the IAEA published a report stating that the Iranian Government and Military were still actively working towards creating a nuclear weapons program in direct opposition to the international treaty it is still a member of that prohibits the development of nuclear weapons unless permission has been given for purposes of national defence. Politicians and media outlets in the United States immediately jumped upon this report as reasoning to begin talk of heavier sanctions against the Iranian economy with some in that group calling for military action to be undertaken against select targets that are apparently aiding Iran with it's nuclear weapons program.
The thing is that the IAEA report has come under attack for being filled with misinformation and taking information from one unchecked source much like how the intelligence for the illegal weapons in program was discovered. The current head of the IAEA Yukiya Amano credibility has also been questioned with the recent revelation from wikileaks that he was hand-picked from Washington in return for his loyalty
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| Yukiya Amano |
It seems that an organization once credited with criticizing the United States for it's poor intelligence gathering in regards to Iraq and for invading Iraq on this poor evidence has been corrupted to follow the neo-conservative path to further conflict in return for a few concessions in the G-77.In a meeting with Ambassador on the eve of the two-week Board of Governors (BoG) and General Conference (GC) marathon of mid-September, IAEA Director General-designate Yukiya Amano thanked the U.S. for having supported his candidacy and took pains to emphasize his support for U.S. strategic objectives for the Agency. Amano reminded the Ambassador on several occasions that he would need to make concessions to the G-77, which correctly required him to be fair-minded and independent, but that 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. - Diplomatic cable
The war drum also continued upon the uncovering of news that the Iranian Government attempted to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. According to the American Government and Iranian-American Mannsor Arbabsiar attempted to hire an informant inside a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador by planting a bomb outside a popular restaurant in Washington DC. Obvious questions arise when the matter is looked into properly, why would the Qud force Iran's most elite division of it's military responsible for several hundred successful operations across the world resort to a 56 year old Iranian-American used car salesman from Texas to hire a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to America whilst he is in Washington DC? How does the death of a Saudi Ambassador benefit the Iranian Government and if they wanted the ambassador dead why did they give such an important task to an unknown and untrusted individual when they could of given the task to a trusted individual within the organization or someone from their trusted proxies and allies in Hezbollah, Hamas and other Pro-Iranian organizations across the Middle East, such an incident reminds me of the build-up to the war in Iraq when officials of the American Government claimed that Saddam had the ability to launch a biological assault against the United States using drone weapons when in reality all Iraq had was old Soviet targeting drones that could barely function let alone carry out any sort of attack against any nation.
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| Mannsor Arbabsiar |
Lawyers representing some of the families effected by 9/11 are now calling for a federal judge to rule that Iran was culpable in the terrorist attacks committed those days claiming that the Iranian Government had knowlledge of the attacks and helped train fighters that took part in them. This completely flies in the face of all logic and reason when considering that Al-Qaeda and the Shi'ite regime of Iran are natural enemies. Iran have despised Al-Qaeda especially since 1998 when the terrorist group murdered a large group of Iranian officials and even co-operated with American forces during the invasion of Afghanistan and forced one of Osama Bin Laden's son to leave the country in 2002. It appears that misinformation and scaremongering is driving the United States closer to a conflict with Iran.
- http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/10/09UNVIEVIENNA478.html#
- http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2011/11/iran-and-the-iaea.html
- http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/lawyers_ask_nyc_judge_to_find_iran_Eu0cgc8KhaQaxvSILr10rJ
