The Forthcoming War With IRAN

Image via Wikipedia It is clear from recent press reports that the west, or its proxy Israel, is preparing for an imminent  attack on Iran. Indeed I have little doubt that the recurrence in the past few days of the virus attacks on Iran and the blowing up of a missile storage site are precursors to this action. It is also a well known fact that Israel is being supported by British and American intelligence and military entities in these activities and that such support will continue to be provided.

 The excuse for this will be that Iran, in recent years, has consistently failed to provide the International Atomic Energy Authority access to it's nuclear development facilities. Whilst Iran states that these facilities are being developed for peaceful purposes to provide nuclear energy the IAEA, in recent years, backed by the west are claiming that it is attempting to develop nuclear weapons.

 One of the many ironies in this situation is that whilst Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Israel is not (together with India, Pakistan and North-Korea) and is believed to have between 75 to 400 nuclear warheads deliverable by long- range missile, aircraft and submarines. Iran meanwhile concerned about fears over Israel's nuclear weapons programme first proposed to the United Nations in 1974 that the middle east should be declared a nuclear weapons free zone. These proposals were repeated in 2006 and 2008 but, needless to say, they were thrown out.

 Another irony is that, "The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program.^[1] The support, encouragement and participation of the United States and Western European governments in Iran's nuclear program continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran" (source Wiki).


 Just as in Iraq, the country that allegedly possessed "weapons of mass destruction" crucial to the debate was a recent report by the IAEA.  I say recent because previously Hans Blix (yes him again) had declared that there was no evidence of the development of nuclear weapons by IRAN but in 2005 the Agency (in a very rare non-consensus decision) first raised serious concerns about the issue. Despite this Israel accused its then Director General, the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Mohammed El-Baradei of being, "pro Iranian".


  Now the plot begins to thicken. The recent report from the new Director General of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano (more on him later) has whipped the hawkish voices, and the press, in Israel, France, the U.K. and the U.S.A. into an anti-Iran frenzy with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, "ruling nothing out". Now, dear reader, doesn't this all sound familiar? It is almost an exact pre-run of the talk that took place before the invasion of Iraq.


 Now for Director General Yukiya Amano and, enter left Wikileaks. Remember them?  Julian Assange is holed up on dubious charges in Sweden whist the much vaunted Free Market (courtesy of the U.S.A) has bankrupted the organisation by refusing to let the general public make donations to it through Visa, MasterCard or Paypal. It appears that in a 2009 diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, the U.S. secured the Support of Amano in its campaign against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme as a quid-pro-quo for their support of his candidacy for Director General of the IAEA following El-Baradei's resignation. In other words he was their place-man in the IAEA.


 The telegram makes astonishing reading and here is a brief extract, "In a meeting with (the US) Ambassador on the eve of the two week Board of Governors and General Conference marathon IAEA Director General- designate Yukiya Amano thanked the U.S. for having supported his candidacy and took pains to emphasise his support for U.S. strategic objectives for the Agency. Amano reminded 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."


 There are going to be dark days ahead for us all.