John wrote: > The USA's 16 intelligence agencies conclude in > the National Intelligence Estimate that Iran gave > up any nuclear weapons program in 2003? > So, you're thinking that for the past eighteen years Iran had a secret nuclear weapons program but in 2003 they gave it up? But for all of those eighteen years Iran denied having a nuclear weapons program.
So, what's to prevent Iran from starting it up again? "It has also long been clear that Iraq is merely a front in wider regional and indeed, global war. Iran declared war on the west in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini announced his intention of conquering the west for Islam. The response of the west has been to ignore the fact that war was thus declared upon it, as was demonstrated by attacks upon it ever since by Iran along with the Sunni/Wahhabi Islamists, who were both its deadly theological rivals for regional hegemony and at the same time its allies in the war against the free world." Read more: 'The war against the free world' Posted by Melanie Phillips: http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1429