No source has ever verified Iranian plans to develop nuclear
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6 SOCIALIST ACTION SEPTEMBER 2015 of a “civilized” nation that holds in its blood-stained hands the immediate capacity to wipe out all life on earth!
Iran, by contrast, has zero nuclear weapons. No source—the imperialist-created International Atomic Energy Commission included—has ever verified Ira nian plans to develop nuclear weapons.
No credible evidence has been presented that Iran’s intentions have been otherwise. Iran has not violated any international or other treaty obligations regard ing nuclear weapons. Its development and deploy ment of the technology to purify uranium for nuclear power generation, medical purposes, and scientific research is totally within the parameters of all inter national treaties.
Yet the recent Iran-U.S. “negotiated agreement” was conducted under the threat of even deeper sanctions and the strongly implied, if not explicit, warning that the U.S. and its Israel puppet are prepared to bomb Iran’s enrichment facilities should they deem Iran in violation of the imperialist-imposed “agreement” and “having exhausted all peaceful means” of persuasion.
In our view, the world’s imperialist bully has no moral, political, legal, or any other standing to de mand that Iran or any poor and oppressed nation ac cede to its demands. Need we remind our readers that the U.S. is the only nation on earth to explode nuclear weapons on civilian populations, having instantly obliterated over 100,000 people (with an equal num ber dying from injuries and radiation sickness in sub sequent months) when it bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945?
Need we recall the 1953 military coup orchestrat ed by the Central Intelligence Agency that removed Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mo hammad Mosaddegh and replaced him with dictator Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi, who promptly signed over Iran’s nationalized oil reserves, the second or third largest in the Middle East, to U.S. corporations?
This U.S.-imposed dictator/king, with direct CIA as sistance, established the most murderous secret po lice in the world, the SAVAK, which imprisoned, and often tortured, 70,000 Iranian dissidents. With U.S.