Nuclear Agreement With Iran
By Paul Craig Roberts
July 08, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
- Washington’s issue with Iran has never been
Iran’s nuclear energy program. The notion pushed by the
neoconservatives that Iran only had a nuclear energy program (5%
uranium enrichment) in order to hide a nuclear weapons program (95+%
enrichment) was always a cover for Washington’s real opposition to
Iran and Washington’s real agenda.
From the standpoint of Washington’s doctrine of US
world hegemony, the problem with Iran is its independence. Like
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina,
Cuba, North Korea, Russia and China, Iran is not Washington’s
vassal.
Washington was unwilling to admit the truth and to
say that Iran was on its target list, because Iran would not submit
to Washington’s will. Instead, Washington decided to create fear of
Iran among the American and European peoples. Washington did this by
accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons that Iran would give to
terrorists or use itself against Israel, Europe, and America. When
Washington placed anti-ballistic missiles on Russia’s border,
Washington lied to Russia that the purpose was to intercept
(non-existent) Iranian nuclear ICBMs.
Washington’s propaganda about the threat of
Iranian nukes is now many years old despite the National
Intelligence Report released by all 16 US intelligent agencies that
Iran abandoned more than a decade ago its interest in nuclear
weapons. Washington’s propaganda has also continued with the aid of
the Western media despite the fact that the International Atomic
Energy Agency inspectors on the ground in Iran consistently report
that there is no evidence of any diversion of enriched uranium to a
weapons program. In other words, the IAEA inspectors can account for
all of the enriched uranium by the perfectly legal energy program.
Nevertheless, Washington contends, Iran is making
or is about to make nuclear weapons.
The nuclear weapons fabrication has always been a
cloak for Washington’s real intention, which is to bring regime
change to Iran, whether from outside or inside, and return Iran to
its previous status of a vassal state of the West. The Western
imperialists never forgive those who escape or throw off their
clutches.
Washington orchestrated the “nuclear threat” issue
in order to prepare Americans and Europeans for a military attack on
Iran.
By cloaking its real intentions in a fabricated
issue, Washington opened the door to Russia resolving the fabricated
issue with diplomacy. Trapped in its own fabrication, Washington is
confronted with Russia resolving the issue with enforceable
agreements that guarantee no Iranian enrichment to weapons category.
Frustrated, the rabid neoconservatives acting
through Washington’s two-bit punk politicians have tried to block
the agreement. The Republican Party, now controlled by Israel, even
asked the crazed leader of Israel to address the US Congress in
order to block Obama’s agreement to the Iran deal.
To block the deal at this stage is to admit that
the nuclear issue was never more than a cover for Washington’s
objection to Iran’s independence.
Whether Obama is sincere, entrapped by Russian
diplomacy, or relying on a false flag event to discredit Iran and
thus nix the deal, I do not know. Israel, of course, wants
Washington to remove all obstacles to its expansion in the Middle
East. Having stolen Palestine, Israel wants southern Lebanon as its
next acquisition.
What I do know is that as the nuclear deal with
Iran is not the real issue, whether it succeeds or fails will have
no impact, because Washington’s objection to Iran is Iran’s
independence. Iran is in Washington’s way. The nuclear threat hoax
that Washington created was just a propagandistic way to bring
insouciant Americans and Europeans around to an attack on Iran.
Iran remains in danger regardless of the success
or failure of the agreement.
I am amazed that governments threatened by
Washington always fail to see the real issue and instead accept
Washington’s definition of the problem. The contrived nuclear issue
serves as a cloak for Washington’s intention to overthrow the
independence of Iran; yet the Iranian government and Iranian media
have followed the lead of Washington and its presstitutes in
accepting this contrived issue as the real issue. If Iran survives,
it will be a miracle.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard
News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and
Economic Dissolution of the West
and
How America Was Lost.