Zusätzlich zu den Verteidigungsministern berichtete die NYT am 24.02.12, dass auch sämtliche Geheimdienste der USA der Meinung sind, das Iran keine Atomwaffen baut:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/world ... .html?_r=1WASHINGTON — Even as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said in a new report Friday that Iran had accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb.
Recent assessments by American spy agencies are broadly consistent with a 2007 intelligence finding that concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons program years earlier, according to current and former American officials. The officials said that assessment was largely reaffirmed in a 2010 National Intelligence Estimate, and that it remains the consensus view of America’s 16 intelligence agencies.
Da sind sich alle 16 Geheimdienste einig: Iran baut keine Atomwaffen.
Trotzdem gibt es Sanktionen wegen dem iranischen Atomprogram. Die Lage spitzt sich zu und schon ist eine neue Bedrohung ausgemacht: Iran könnte die Straße von Hormuz sperren. Das US-Militär benötigt nun zusätzliche Mittel, um auf eine eventuelle Sperrung des Seeweges reagieren zu können:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -grow.html Gen James Mattis, the head of the US Central Command, has privately informed Congress of his intentions to place mine detection and clearing equipment in and around the Strait and to boost surveillance capabilities in the Gulf.
There are also plans to modify weapons systems on ships that are at present vulnerable to Iranian fast-attack boats, many of which carry anti-ship missiles.
Reflecting Pentagon fears that the US could be sucked into a war by the end of the year, the Central Command told Congress that it wanted the new systems in place by the autumn.
und nun sind es auch nicht mehr die Amerikaner, die einen Krieg mit Iran wollen, sondern Israel:
The request comes amid growing speculation that Israel is preparing to launch unilateral military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities this year. Senior US and British officials have cautioned Israel against such action, urging Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to give tougher Western sanctions against Iran a chance to work. President Barack Obama is expected to emphasise that message when he holds talks with Mr Netanyahu in Washington next Sunday.
Da scheinen die aber sowas wie "good cop - bad cop" zu spielen.
http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... ff/253875/At the White House on Monday, President Obama will seek to persuade the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to postpone whatever plans he may have to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months. Obama will argue that under his leadership, the United States "has Israel's back," and that he will order the U.S. military to destroy Iran's nuclear program if economic sanctions fail to compel Tehran to shelve its nuclear ambitions.
Und obwohl Alle sagen, dass Iran kein Nuklearwaffen-Programm hat, will Obama dieses nicht vorhandene Programm zerstören, wenn die Sanktionen - die wegen dem nicht vorhandenen Programm verhängt wurden - nichts nutzen.
Achja, jetzt heißt es ja nicht mehr Programm, sondern "Ambitions"...
Also, auch ein ziviles Atomprogramm zur Nutzung von Atomenergie oder für medizinische Zwecke ist nun ein Kriegsgrund.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_03_03/67411118/The carrier group of the USS Carl Vinson has re-entered the Gulf. Another US carrier group, of the USS Abraham Lincoln, continues to patrol the Arabian Sea just south of the Strait of Hormuz.
It is backed by three attack submarines, one of which is carrying 154 Tomahawk missiles.
On Friday, President Obama re-iterated his pledge to do everything in his power to avert the emergence of a nuclear-armed Iran. He said even military action remained an option.
Das sind die Vorbereitungen für einen größeren Angriff, der nicht nur Irans Atomanlagen zum Ziel hat, sondern die gesamte Verteidigungs-Infrastruktur ebenso wie die zivile Infrastruktur.
http://garysick.tumblr.com/When sanctions began Iran had only a rudimentary nuclear programme, without a single centrifuge. Today, after 16 years of ever-stronger sanctions, the IAEA reports that Iran has a substantial nuclear programme with some 8,000 operational centrifuges installed in two major sites, and a stockpile of about five tons of low-enriched uranium. This is the definition of a failed policy.
The US and its allies have responded by increasing the sanctions to a point where Iran would no longer be able to sell its petroleum products, depriving it of more than 50% of its revenues. This amounts to a military blockade of Iranian oil ports, an act of war. So sanctions, supposed to be the alternative to war, are gradually morphing into economic warfare. The point at which economic pressure becomes undeclared war will be reached by mid-2012 when near-total boycotts of Iranian banks and Iranian oil by the US and the EU will formally take effect. No one can be sure how Iran will respond, but it is difficult to believe it will meekly surrender or simply do nothing.
People who lie to others have merely hidden away the truth, but people who lie to themselves have forgotten where they put it.