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1
Iran - Who is fooling who?
2
US Iran relationship
  • From 1954 to 2006, the US has supplied Iran with
    the weapons to wage war

3
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
  • 52 hostages, held for 444 days, released on
    Reagans inauguration day
  • Bush Sr. meets with Iranian officials in the
    summer of 80 to setup the release of the
    hostages after the election in exchange for arms

4
Iran / Contra Scandal
  • US trades arms for hostages with Iran through
    the secret operations of the NSA (Nat. Security
    Agency)

5
Iran Iraq War
  • 8 years and over a million dead
  • US supplies both countries with weapons
  • weapons included chemical warfare
  • A few months ago I told the American people I
    did not trade arms for hostages.
  • My heart and my best intentions still tell me
    that is true, but the facts and the evidence tell
    me it is not.
  • - Pres. Reagan, March 4, 1987

6
Belgium also supplies Iran
  • 2005, Belgium sells sensitive equipment which
    could enhance Iran's ability to develop nuclear
    weapons

7
Russia supplies Iran
  • Russians helping Iran create Europe missile
    threat
  • AFP October 15, 2005
  • Former members of the Russian military have been
    secretly helping Iran obtain the technology
    needed to make missiles capable of hitting
    European capitals, a British newspaper the
    Telegraph claimed on Sunday.

8
China Sanctioned for aiding Iran
  • U.S. sanctions Chinese firms for aiding
    TehranWASHINGTON TIMES December 27, 2005,
    Bill Gertz
  • Several Chinese companies involved in selling
    missile goods and chemical-arms materials to Iran
    have been hit with U.S. sanctions
  • These latest sanctions show that China is
    continuing to support the missile and weapons of
    mass destruction (WMD) programs of states that
    support international terrorism. - Bush
    administration

9
Britain Stocks Iran
  • UK 'sells' bomb material to Iran
  • BBC News September 23, 2002
  • British officials have approved the export of
    key components needed to make nuclear weapons to
    Iran
  • UK exports nuclear material to Iran
  • The Australian January 8 2006
  • Britain allows export of radioactive material
    containing rare zirconium and hafnium, both used
    in making nuclear power and nuclear bombs, to Iran

10
By 2006
  • Who hasnt supplied Iran with the materials and
    technology to create a nuclear weapon?
  • Is there a residual relationship between the
    Bush crime family and Ahmadinejad?
  • Who is fooling who?

11
9/11 and Bush pulls the trigger
  • Bush declares Iran, Iraq, No. Korea as evil-doers
    - Axis of Evil
  • Iran is labeled an evil rogue state
  • June 2005, Ahmadinejad becomes president of Iran
    and begins bad mouthing the US and Israel
  • Both Ahmadinejad and Bush need an enemy to
    bolster support for their governments

12
Ahmadinejads comments
  • Iran Leader Wants Israel Moved to Europe
  • Associated Press December 8, 2005
  • Iran's hard-liner president, said that the
    Jewish state should be moved to Europe if the
    West wants to make up for the Holocaust.
  • December 2005 Ahmadinejad refers to the Holocaust
    as a myth, has conference to debunk the
    holocaust

13
Israeli response
  • AFP December 13 2005
  • Iran will have acquired all the necessary
    technological know-how to build a nuclear bomb by
    March 06
  • - Israeli chief of staff Dan Halutz
  • Israel is widely believed to possess around 200
    nuclear warheads, making it the only nuclear
    power in the Middle East

14
Bush
  • Bush Iran Intends to Nuke Israel
  • - right wing Newsmax January 16 2006
  • Bush warns
  • "I want to remind you that the current president
    of Iran has announced that the destruction of
    Israel is an important part of their agenda.
  • And that's unacceptable. And the development of
    a nuclear weapon, it seems to me, would make them
    a step closer to achieving that objective."

15
Iran gets enriched
  • Jan. 10, 2006 - Iran breaks the IAEA seal on its
    uranium containers
  • Iran begins uranium enrichment process

16
Lesson in uranium
17
Iran announces peaceful nukes
  • On 11 January 2006, Ahmadinejad announced that
    Iran will have peaceful nuclear technology very
    soon
  • Ahmadinejad has invited "all countries" to
    participate in Iran's nuclear project
  • "A nation which has culture, logic and
    civilization does not need nuclear weapons.

18
Bush warns from behind the flag
  • Iran would be a threat to the world if it had a
    nuclear weapon Bush

Is that a Heil Bush?
19
Britain, Australia call for sanctions
  • Blair Says West Likely to Sanction Iran 1/11/06
  • Blair and Howard - Western countries likely to
    seek economic sanctions against Iran

20
US calls for sanctions
  • "there is no other choice but to refer the matter
    to the Security Council" - Rice

21
Germany proclaims a warning
  • We will not be intimidated by a country such as
    Iran" - German Chancellor Merkel
  • Iran and North Korea will commit serious
    mistakes if they ignore the international
    community's repeated warnings and press forward
    with contested nuclear programs - Shroeder

22
The EU
  • Europe Rejects Nuclear Talks With Iran
  • Associated Press January 18, 2006
  • Europe, backed by the US, rejected Iran's request
    for talks on its nuclear program
  • there's not much to talk about until Iran halts
    nuclear activity Rice

23
Britain
  • "There is a lot of circumstantial evidence which
    has raised significant anxieties in the
  • International community."
  • Iran is at the very least developing options
    for a nuclear weapons program
  • Jack Straw, Britains Foreign Minister

24
Iran responds
  • Ex- Iran Pres. Rafsanjani said he was
    "astonished" by the West's attempt to "bully"
    Iran
  • Britain stocks Iran with nuclear materials then
    accuses Iran of developing options for nuclear
    weapons

25
US Media Reports
  • Iran has been referred to the United Nations
    Security Council for violations to the Non
    Proliferation Treaty
  • "If Iran takes any further enrichment related
    steps, the international community will have to
    consider additional measures to restrain Iran's
    nuclear ambitions

26
Irans reaction
  • Defiant Iran threatens to halt nuclear
    cooperation
  • "all voluntary means of cooperation would end if
    Iran was referred to Security Council
  • Irans Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki

27
UN inspectors in Iran for 3 yrs
28
The IAEA
  • After 3 years of go-anywhere see-anything
    interview-anyone inspections
  • IAEA inspectors have yet to find any indication
    that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.
  • Iran poses no threat to either its neighbors or
    the United States
  • IRAN HAS NOT VIOLATED its Non-Proliferation
    Treaty obligations

29
What is really happening
  • Iran was not referred to the Security Council for
    sanctions
  • the Security Council called on Iran to implement
    transparency measures
  • The council process is likely to take months,
    with ignored warnings escalating and Amb. Bolton
    chanting the No-Confidence in the UN mantra

30
Conservative Press mis-quote
  • The conservative Drudge Report sensationalized
    comments of El-Baradei, head of the IAEA it
    will take Iran only a few months to produce a
    nuclear bomb
  • El-Baradei said he did not know if Iran was
    developing a bomb but IF they had enriched
    uranium then it would take only a few months to
    produce a bomb

31
Iran prepares for peace
Feb 21, talks with Russia begin, no they dont,
yes they do, no wait they dont Russia is
offering to enrich uranium for Iran to guarantee
it will be used only for peaceful ends
32
Senators speak out
  • This is the most serious crisis we have faced,
    outside the entire war on terror, since the end
    of the Cold War.
  • - McCain

33
Senator Kerry
  • "Iran has made a dangerous and silly decision of
    confronting
  • not just the U.S. govt but the entire
    international community."
  • - Sen. John Kerry

34
US Senator McCain
  • The difference between Iraq and Iran is that
    Saddam Hussein had us all fooled, including his
    own generals, about having weapons of mass
    destruction.
  • I think it's pretty clear in the mind of any
    expert that Iranians are about to acquire them,"
  • - John McCain

35
McCain calls for war, almost
  • Washington should be prepared to take military
    action if necessary against Iran.
  • If the Russians and the Chinese do not join us,
    then we would have to go with the willing."
  • - McCain, Jan. 16, 2006

36
Americans gaining fear
  • Before 2006 - 6 of Americans considered Iran the
    greatest danger to the US. In Jan, 06,
    according to a recent Pew Poll that number has
    jumped to 27
  • 47 of Americans said they favored military
    action, to halt Irans nuclear program

37
The CIA
  • Iran already has nuclear weapons and Turkey
    should be ready for a possible US air operation
    against Iran and Syria.
  • - Porter Goss, head of CIA on tour in Turkey -
    Dec. 27, 05
  • The only way Goss can make such a claim is the
    fact the world has been supporting nuclear weapon
    development in Iran for years.

38
Iran Prepares for War
  • Students sign pledges to be suicide bombers

39
Iran President Meets Leaders
  • Syria and Iran have formed a "front" to oppose
    arrogance and domination. - Ahmadinejad
  • Ahmadinejad visits Palestine and lends support
  • Then on to
  • Venezuela to visit
  • Hugo Chavez

40
The worlds power elite
  • Global taxes were the topic of discussion at the
    6/06 Bilderburg meeting to be sold to the world
    as taxes that will save the world, will it?

41
The UN
  • 1/31/06 the UN promises to 'Save The World' in
    return for a global government - UN Development
    Program
  • - sacrifice your national sovereignty and we will
    save the world!
  • The plan was unveiled at the economic Forum in
    Davos in Jan. 06

42
UN Ambassador Bolton
  • Pushing the UN into being the administrator for a
    World Government serving the desires of the
    Bilderburgs and the Economic Forum
  • Calling for sanctions on Iran
  • Was not elected by Congress to represent US, has
    until Jan. 07 to reform the UN

43
The UN, throwing in the towel?
  • Feb. 2006 - The most potent threats to life on
    earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty
    and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that
    would unlock 7 trillion of previously untapped
    wealth, through a world tax, the United Nations
    claims.
  • The price? An admission that the nation-state is
    an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play
    in a modern globalized world.

44
The Petro Euro
  • Irans new oil currency is competition for the US
    in international oil trading
  • What will this do to the US and world economy?
  • A crashing world economy paves the way for the
    world elites plan to implement a world govt and
    a world currency

45
Global Currency
  • Feb 21, 2006 the secretive Bilderberg, Bank
    For International Settlements, has released a
    policy paper that calls for the end of national
    currencies in favor of a global model

46
US Might
  • Point in fact
  • One Trident Nuclear Submarine carries as much
    destructive power as 25 World War II's
  • The US has 16 Trident subs and is prepared to use
    them in support of establishing a World
    Government

47
  • Here it is March 10, 2006 and the sabre rattling
    is increasing
  • The US has stepped up its sanctions on Syria,
    Irans ally
  • Iran is becoming defiant over US moves to war
  • The leaders from both sides require expulsion and
    exile-ation
  • How much longer will the people wait before they
    take back their countries from mad leaders?
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