{"id":7286,"date":"2018-05-02T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7286"},"modified":"2018-05-02T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T09:58:09","slug":"a-coup-and-a-coverup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/7286\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coup and a Coverup"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two things to say about this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a landmark nuclear deal with Iran was “built on lies”, after Israel claimed to have proof of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of conducting a secret nuclear weapons programme, dubbed Project Amad, and said it had continued to pursue nuclear weapons knowledge after the project was shuttered in 2003.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mr Netanyahu presented what he said was evidence of thousands of “secret nuclear files” that showed Iran had lied about its nuclear ambitions before the deal was signed in 2015.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mr Pompeo said documents revealed by Israel’s prime minister were authentic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I’ve had to pull the above quotes from all over the article and re-arrange the order. The above is the story, but the BBC has crafted the article so as to mislead as much as possible, with the third paragraph reading:<\/p>\n

Analysts say they show nothing new, highlighting that concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions led to the 2015 deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which analysts? The BBC doesn’t say, but they do quote the Iranian foreign minister. Similarly, the US media, if they’re covering it at all, is full of former employees of the Obama adminstration playing it down. Why would that be then? For the same reason they refused to cover the protests in Iran which took place last December: Barack Obama made a ludicrously bad deal with Iran which involved exchanging pallets of cash dollars worth over a billion in return for vague promises about shelving their nuclear ambitions. The deal was so bad Obama did it unilaterally, thus avoiding Congress who would point out the money will almost certainly be used to fund war and terrorism against US allies. The media however lapped it up, and now it’s looking likely that Iran is cheating – as if anyone sane believed they wouldn’t – they can’t bring themselves to criticise what was lauded as a central plank of Obama’s legacy (the disastrous Obamacare and sucking up to the Castros being the others). The BBC ensures to tell us early on:<\/p>\n

Other Western powers, including signatories Britain and France, say Iran has been abiding by the deal and it should be kept.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, yes. European countries are slavering at the bit to get their national champions into Iran, probably the last semi-advanced nation which remains out of bounds to them. They couldn’t give a stuff about Middle East security or terrorism, provided they can flog their goods and services in a country where Americans are detested. A more cynical approach to nuclear security couldn’t be imagined, and I dearly hope Trump pulls the plug on the whole deal just so I can see these companies – all of whom have self-righteous ethics policies littering their websites – are forced to abandon their plans or run the risk of falling foul of the US Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

The other interesting part of the story is this:<\/p>\n

Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters on Monday that Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad had obtained 55,000 pages of evidence and a further 55,000 files on 183 CDs relating to Project Amad.<\/p>\n

A senior Israeli official told the New York Times that the agency first discovered the warehouse in southern Tehran in February 2016, and put the building under surveillance.<\/p>\n

In January, intelligence agents managed to break into the property in the middle of the night, remove the original documents and smuggle them back into Israel the same night, the official told the paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever you think of Israel, that is one hell of an operation by Mossad, and worthy of being made into a film. The only way they could have made it better is if they’d replaced the documents with copies of Obama’s sealed university thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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