{"id":200654,"date":"2020-01-11T07:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T07:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200654"},"modified":"2020-01-14T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T08:48:36","slug":"iran-could-have-nuclear-bomb-within-a-year-an-old-accusation-is-repeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=200654","title":{"rendered":"Iran could have nuclear bomb ‘within a year’: an old accusation is repeated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Jan 10, 2020<\/h1>\n

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Like they say, if at first you don\u2019t succeed, try, try again and this is exactly what is happening with efforts against Iran. Like earlier media coverage of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, new efforts to malign Iran are being broadcast by the Western mainstream media almost daily.<\/h5>\n
The objective is to turn Western public opinion against Iran so as justify some sort of military action.<\/h5>\n
Apart from Trump accusing Iran of being a \u201cleading sponsor of terror\u201d in a recent statement<\/a><\/span>, the president went on to say that Iran\u2019s \u201cpursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world\u201d.<\/h5>\n
In fact in his recent address Trump listed a string of crimes that Iran was guilty of. From the Iranian authorities killing 1,500 protesters during recent protests in the country, to helping create \u201chell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq\u201d.<\/h5>\n
Even if we ignore the massive overestimation of deaths in recent protests in Iran, or the probability that the CIA had a role in inciting those protests, Trump\u2019s hypocrisy is nothing short of astounding. If only because he pointedly ignored the part the U.S. played in the other countries he mentioned.<\/h5>\n
After all, it was the U.S. and its allies that invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. It was American ally Saudi Arabia that \u201cintervened\u201d in Yemen and fought against the Houthi militia. While it was America\u2019s Saudi allies that funded the Free Syrian Army, who were then armed with U.S. weapons and who brought terror to large parts of Syria.<\/h5>\n
None of this was even alluded to in Trump\u2019s recent address.<\/h5>\n
If that wasn’t bad enough, Iran has now admitted that it “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian Boeing 737, which crashed near Tehran on Wednesday. The admission only adds weight to the accusations aimed at the Islamic Republic.<\/h5>\n
Worse still, it\u2019s now also being claimed that Iran could have a \u2018nuclear bomb \u201cwithin a year\u201d. Of course we\u2019ve heard these claims before, on numerous occasions over thirty years<\/span><\/a>, and nothing ever came of them. Like claims about Saddam\u2019s Weapons of Mass Destruction, which also proved to be entirely fictitious, they are simply being used to turn public opinion against what Washington views as a potential target.<\/h5>\n
So what follows is propaganda of the worst sort. It starts of by claiming: \u201cexperts fear Iran could have atomic weapons in just a year\u201d.<\/h5>\n
That\u2019s a serious charge but the Mirror doesn\u2019t name these \u201cexperts\u201d or even quote them. To make matters worse it doesn\u2019t even say precisely why these supposed experts believe that Iran could have nukes “within a year”.<\/h5>\n
In other words the Mirror makes very serious claims against Iran without providing one bit of evidence to substantiate them.<\/h5>\n
This is not \u201cjournalism\u201d, it is nothing more than propaganda in the guise of journalism.<\/h5>\n
It\u2019s no wonder that many now refer to mainstream media journalists as presstitutes — in effect intellectual whores in the service of the powers that be. Ed.<\/h5>\n

Iran could have nuclear bomb ‘within a year’ as it’s accused of downing plane<\/h1>\n

Neil Murphy \u2013 The Mirror Jan 10, 2020<\/h2>\n

Experts fear Iran could have atomic weapons in just a year which could push the region on the brink of nuclear war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tensions remain high after Iran was accused of downing a Ukraine International Airlines jet bound for Kiev on Wednesday, claiming the lives of all 176 people on board.<\/span><\/p>\n

Western leaders say they have intelligence that links Tehran to the tragedy which occurred as Iranian forces launched a revenge missile attack against US troops stationed in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday, a US official, citing an extensive review of satellite data, said Washington had concluded with a high degree of certainty that anti-aircraft missiles brought the plane down.<\/span><\/p>\n

The official said the Boeing 737-800 had been tracked by Iranian radar<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this week Donald Trump<\/a> declared “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added: They understand that. We have told them very strongly. Iran now is not wealthy like it was when President (Barack) Obama handed $150 billion. They are much different country,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

EU foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to seek ways to guide the United States and Iran away from confrontation, knowing that a miscalculation on either side could be costly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran is believed to be pursuing its atomic energy programme in secret, despite promising in 2015 it would halt its nuclear research.<\/span><\/p>\n

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday that the country has failed to respect the 2015 Vienna nuclear accord.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If they continue with unravelling the Vienna agreement, then yes, within a fairly short period of time, between one and two years, they could have access to a nuclear weapon, which is not an option”, Le Drian said on RTL radio.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Iran’s desire to prevent the crisis from escalating has bought us some time, it has the effect of cooling this down just a little,” a senior EU diplomat said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau said that the destruction of the airliner, which carried 63 Canadians, “may well have been unintentional.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Iran was accused of having a secret nuclear weapons program, now it\u2019s claimed that it could have a nuke in \u201c12 months\u201d. The drive for a military strike on Iran is back <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200654"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200687,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200654\/revisions\/200687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}