We made a deal with Iran back in July: stop building the bomb, we said, and we will lift sanctions. The Iranians took the deal, and part of that was to allow international inspectors into their nuclear sites and military sites to check on what was really going on and what they really had been doing.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was given the job. Yesterday, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano issued their report on what they found. And boy, does this make Benjamin Netanyahu look like a rube just off the turnip truck.
The Agency has no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009. Nor has the Agency found any credible indications of the diversion of nuclear material in connection with the possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme.
You could see this one coming: in February, a leaked Mossad cable indicated that the uranium enrichment Iran was engaged in was for their research reactor rather than for weapons. So it looks like Iran was playing poker while we were playing chess. That whole bomb thing? Just a bluff. Buh-bye, sanctions.
The year 2009 may also be significant, as that is when Obama came into office. So the Iranians were building the bomb when warmonger G.W. Bush was in power, but when Obama came in the pressure was off. If that was part of the equation, Obama certainly did deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
And this, this is why John Boehner spit in the eye of 225 years of diplomatic precedent and protocol, and invited a foreign head of state to address Congress without approval of the State Department: he wanted to hear the lies.