The Language of Persuasion #3
I think this is a diversion. The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago,” one intelligence official wrote in an email dated November 14, 2011. “The current ‘let’s bomb Iran’ campaign was ordered by the EU leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, G6 of U.S. Army’s 94th Division, says alleged Iran assassination plot a fabrication by U.S. government to establish casus belli.
The logic here is very simple: by making unrealistic demands, the failure of any negotiations is willfully anticipated, which then, according to the BPC [Bipartisan Policy Center], shall open the way for illegal measures such as an economic blockade and a military attack.
According to DEBKAfile, departing UK Ambassador to the DPRK Peter Hughes remarked on Wednesday “I have had discussions with high-level officials, who have made clear to me their view that if Colonel Qaddafi had not given up his nuclear weapons, then NATO would not have attacked his country.” Will NATO policy in Libya hasten the proliferation of nuclear weapons by states seeking insurance against conventional attack?
In his 2008 paper Why States Give Up Nuclear Weapons, Harald Müller of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt remarked “it is security perception by the actors, not security assessment by far-away scholars which determines the policies of a state.” Müller found that a perception of threat to a non-nuclear state by nuclear weapons states played “a direct or indirect role” in the non-nuclear state’s decision to acquire nuclear weapons. In only one case - Israel - the decision to pursue nuclear weapons was unrelated to actual or perceived nuclear threats against the nation.
[The Vice-President of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran] Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani told a news conference on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s General Assembly in Vienna how British spies shadowed him around the world to collect information prior to a failed assassination attempt against him last year. Unidentified terrorists detonated bombs attached to the cars of university professors Majid Shahriari and Abbasi-Davani on 29 November 2010.
Iran to Try Suspected Assassin of Nuke Scientist
The Islamic Republic will try Ali Jamali Fashi for the January murder of Iranian nuclear physicist Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, who was killed when a motorcycle parked near his car exploded, according to this link from Press TV.
The Tehran prosecutor claims Ali Jamali Fashi was trained and paid $120,000 by Israeli intelligence to carry-out the attack. Four scientists linked with Iran’s nuclear power program have been attacked in the preceding two years. Der Spiegel previously reported an Israeli connection to the string of killings.
Unidentified motorcycle gunmen in Tehran shot and killed on Saturday a scientist who some linked to Iran’s nuclear program. If he was associated with the program, his death would be the fourth killing or attempted killing of scientists linked to Iran’s nuclear program in less than two years.
