CIA analysts: Why can Israel have nukes but not Iran?

Question

http://www.counterpunch.org/christison09062007.html
CIA analysts look into NPT obligations and argue against the logic behind the US' position of Iranian nuclear energy.

"Israel hasn't been vowing to wipe another nation off the map, that's why!"
Israel already wiped a nation off the map: Palestine. Furthermore, Israel is involved in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, killing hundreds of them every year and imprisoning thousands.

By the way, could i get a link or a reference where Ahmadinejad threatens to destroy Israel? As far as I understand, Ahmadinejad has never said anything remotely close. There was a faulty translation going around, but anyone who reads the news knows that was a hoax on the part of AP and the other corporate news agencies.

Again, can I have some links proving Iran's supposed aggression?
Israel on the other hand has attacked Egypt and Lebanon pre emptively (read without cause) on repeated occasions and is conducting a project of genocide against the Palestinian people. Who are killed by Israel on the order of hundreds every year.

sharia_vigilant: What? Iran is belligerent? Did Iran bomb Japan? Viet Nam? Korea? Panama? Grenada? Cuba? Somalia? Lybia? Kosovo? Did it invade Mexico? Nicaragua? Haiti? the Philippines? Did it murder presidents in Chile, Guatemala, Congo?

Did it invade Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon? Did it bomb Iraq's nuclear facilities?

Answer 1

The honnest answer is because we like israel and dont like iran. But from a point of view of justice and right and wrong, there is no reason why one can have them and not the other.

Let me put it to you this way, when was the last time iran attacked another country or invaded another country? when was the last time the USA did? when was the last time Israel did?

lol

Answer 2

You know, a friend and I were talking about just this aspect of foreign relations yesterday.
The bottom line conclusion that we came to was this: who the heck are we (the U.S.) to tell anyone what they can and can't have?
Now granted, if the country wants to use what they have at the detriment of other countries (or us), then sure, warn them that swift and definite action will be taken if they continue what they are doing, and then follow through when it begins but before it's too late.
I mean, you can't tell me that the U.S. intelligence groups and military don't know what everyone around the world is doing. Maybe the common person doesn't, because we are spoon fed what the "leaders" want us to know and believe. So having said that, I personally think it should be all or none; either everyone is allowed to have what they want and suffer the consequences of their actions, or no one gets the toys.
Maybe that sounds a little extreme, but we spend entirely too much time "policing" the rest of the world, when much of that energy could be spent collecting pertinent infomation and only acting on it when it was necessary.

And to the answerer above me who referred to the bully: No, I wouldn't keep him from getting the gun, but I would sure as h*ll keep him from using it. It is not anyone in particular's responsibility to keep anyone else from doing something that they don't approve of, but it is everyone's responsibility to prevent things that they know are wrong. That's where I feel that the U.S. has gone astray in it's thinking: if we don't like it we are able to stop it. It should be: if it's going to hurt us or someone who can't stop it, then we should as a responsible member of the global community step in and take action, but not before the danger is imminent.

Answer 3

Because Israel is non-aggressive. Israel does not have a history of aggression towards other nations or oppression towards it's own people. Self-defense is not aggression.

Iran on the other hand has made it known that it would harm other nations if it could. Also the Iranian government, as a dictatorship, has hurt and oppressed its own citizens. The most recent example is the punishment of barbers for not cutting hair and beards in a Muslim style.

Answer 4

Because Israel hasn't been vowing to wipe another nation off the map, that's why!

How many times must Iran's fruitloop of a leader threaten to destroy Israel before people realise that yes, he does actually mean what he's saying???!

To give an analogy:

If you were in a school, and the class bully kept declaring his intention of killing another student, would you just stand by while he went and got a gun?

Answer 5

oh man your reasons are useless

these are people are so badly braiwashed that they dont see the truth

they can see innocent peolple are killed in palestian and they name the as terrorist

they cant see that a Free country like iran is improving

it not theyre fualt they are brainwashed.

Answer 6

Tabatha - beat most of us to it.

Iran president paves the way for arabs' imam return
Nov 17, 2005

His call for the destruction of Israel may have grabbed headlines abroad, but it is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's devotion to a mystical religious figure that is arousing greater interest inside Iran.

In a keynote speech on Wednesday to senior clerics, Ahmadinejad spoke of his strong belief in the second coming of Shi'ite Muslims' "hidden" 12th Imam.

According to Shi'ite Muslim teaching, Abul-Qassem Mohammad, the 12th leader whom Shi'ites consider descended from the Prophet Mohammed, disappeared in 941 but will return at the end of time to lead an era of Islamic justice.

"Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," Ahmadinejad said in the speech to Friday Prayers leaders from across the country.


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Here, because you obviously missed it the first time -

Iran president paves the way for arabs' imam return
Nov 17, 2005

His call for the destruction of Israel may have grabbed headlines abroad, but it is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's devotion to a mystical religious figure that is arousing greater interest inside Iran.

In a keynote speech on Wednesday to senior clerics, Ahmadinejad spoke of his strong belief in the second coming of Shi'ite Muslims' "hidden" 12th Imam.

According to Shi'ite Muslim teaching, Abul-Qassem Mohammad, the 12th leader whom Shi'ites consider descended from the Prophet Mohammed, disappeared in 941 but will return at the end of time to lead an era of Islamic justice.

"Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," Ahmadinejad said in the speech to Friday Prayers leaders from across the country.

Answer 7

What Tabitha said