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    US War on Iran:
    Posted on Sunday, September 12 @ 12:28:31 UTC
    Topic: Iran
    IranBy Stephen Gowans
    August 22, 2010 - gowans.wordpress.com


    Remind me why sanctions have been imposed on Iran.

    Is it because the country is developing nuclear weapons?

    If so, US and Israeli officials don’t believe it.

    According to the August 19th edition of The New York Times (“U.S. assures Israel that Iran threat is not imminent”), “American and Israeli officials believe breakout” – that is, a transition from enriching uranium for civilian use to developing a workable nuclear weapon – “is unlikely anytime soon.”

    Iran, it seems, is having difficulty enriching uranium. That could be because “the United States, Israel and Europe have for years engaged in covert attempts to disrupt the enrichment process by sabotaging (Iran’s) centrifuges. “

    Whatever the case, Iran has only “a limited supply of nuclear material, currently enough for two weapons.” And “it would take roughly a year — and perhaps longer — for Iran to complete what one senior official called a ‘dash’ for a nuclear weapon.”

    Were Iran to make a dash for a nuclear weapon, would Washington know about it? Yes. “American officials said the United States believed international inspectors would detect an Iranian move toward breakout within weeks, leaving a considerable amount of time for the United States and Israel to consider military strikes.”

    Either that or Iran would kick “out international … inspectors, eliminating any ambiguity about Iran’s nuclear plans.”

    And “even if Iran were to choose this path, American officials said it would probably take Iran some time to reconfigure its nuclear facilities to produce weapons-grade uranium and ramp up work on designing a nuclear warhead.”

    Okay, but let me get this straight.

    If Iran ever decides to develop nuclear weapons — that is ever decides to — there will be no ambiguity; its course of action will be clear within weeks.

    Moreover, it will take Iran at least a year to develop a workable weapon, allowing other countries plenty of time to intervene. And breakout “is unlikely anytime soon”, if it ever happens at all.

    But most importantly, Iran is not currently working on a nuclear weapon.

    So, why is Iran being sanctioned?

    Source: gowans.wordpress.com

     
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