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No imminent threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, experts say
Israeli and U.S. politicians lately have been bandying about the prospect of an airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities, stirring fear that another destabilizing clash could be provoked in a region already rife with civil war in Syria and other religious and political tensions.
But nonproliferation experts and Middle East analysts are skeptical of Israeli claims that the Tehran regime is so close to building a nuclear weapon that time is running out for a peaceful resolution of the decades-long standoff.
"This is a window that has been closing for 15 years now, and it's always imminently about to close," said Jamal Abdi, policy director for the National Iranian American Council. He sees the sudden flurry of diplomacy between Jerusalem and Washington as an outgrowth of the U.S. presidential campaign and Israeli interest in ensuring that the United States continues to hold a hard line against Iran.
Source and full piece: LA Times, 3 August 2012
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Re: No imminent threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, experts say
“There is no imminent threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.”
So what? There was no imminent threat from Syria either, but that didn't stop the masses from demanding that Syria’s government be destroyed.
When the NATO-Israeli-GCC alliance starts fomenting terrorism inside Iran, the masses will demand that Iran’s government also be destroyed.
Mark my words. When the alliance applies the Syria formula to Iran, then 95 percent of the people who now oppose war with Iran will do an about-face. No one wanted a war on Libya until it actually happened, whereon everyone reversed himself and howled for Qaddafi's head.
This “no threat from Iran” rhetoric has become tiresome. It means that people still cling to the fantasy that logic can stop war. Logic is irrelevant. Western nations have never once been threatened by any nation they made war against. The only “threat” is to the One Percent, when people in faraway lands grew weary of their slavery, and sought freedom from the Empire than enslaves us all.