Slog - Comments on Uh, About That Iranian Nuclear Threat... http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat Looks like American intelligence agencies don't agree with Dick Cheney and George Bush: WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 — A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:54:06 -0800 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:06:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe I'm shocked.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860205 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:02:23 -0800 Comment by Limey Wow, this changes everything!

Not.

]]> Limey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860208 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860208 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:04:30 -0800 Comment by Jessica Psh. Like that ever stopped them before.

]]> Jessica http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860220 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860220 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:30:34 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton I'm guessing that this will lead to someone in the intelligence services being fired and/or attacked using the media.

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860230 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860230 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:38:22 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle No! The WH lying to us again!

Who would have thought?

Oh, wait, let me turn off my shock and awe setting.

They better watch their backs or Cheney and Rove et al will out them ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860263 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860263 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:59:34 -0800 Comment by Issur I agreed with The Stranger that America should attack Iraq. Now we must invade Iran for the protection of Israel. The war is going great. Permanent American airbases have been build in Iraq that Israel can use to attack Iran. Sooner or later Iran must submit to Israel.

The Torah clearly states that Judaism will once again rise up as a light of righteousness for all nations. The sooner we bomb Iran into submission, the sooner peace will arrive for Israel.

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860280 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:11:26 -0800 Comment by Fnarf This report was ready a YEAR AGO, but Cheney has blocked it until now. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39978

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860284 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:16:06 -0800 Comment by Phil M Let's not forget that Haliburton seems to have sold nuclear reactor components to Iran as recently as a couple years ago:

From Project Censored 's top-25 censored news stories of 2007:

#2 Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

Source:

Global Research.ca, August 5, 2005

Title: “Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team”

Author: Jason Leopold

Faculty Evaluator: Catherine Nelson

Student Researchers: Kristine Medeiros and Pla Herr

According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran’s largest private oil companies.

Additionally, throughout 2004 and 2005, Halliburton worked closely with Cyrus Nasseri, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Iran-based Oriental Oil Kish, to develop oil projects in Iran. Nasseri is also a key member of Iran’s nuclear development team. Nasseri was interrogated by Iranian authorities in late July 2005 for allegedly providing Halliburton with Iran’s nuclear secrets. Iranian government officials charged Nasseri with accepting as much as $1 million in bribes from Halliburton for this information.

Oriental Oil Kish dealings with Halliburton first became public knowledge in January 2005 when the company announced that it had subcontracted parts of the South Pars gas-drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Halliburton that is registered to the Cayman Islands. Following the announcement, Halliburton claimed that the South Pars gas field project in Tehran would be its last project in Iran. According to a BBC report, Halliburton, which took thirty to forty million dollars from its Iranian operations in 2003, “was winding down its work due to a poor business environment.”

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There is more detail at the link I cited.

]]> Phil M http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860295 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860295 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:31:17 -0800 Comment by Phil M Sorry, botched the block quotation there.

Why is a story like this not big news in the American media? Conspiracy? Coincidence?


Will in Seattle wrote:

No! The WH lying to us again!

Who would have thought?

I'm guessing not Fnarf and the other 50%-or-so of Americans who put their unwavering faith in Bush & Cheney's 9/11 story and get really testy every time someone suggests we may have been lied to then.

]]> Phil M http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860304 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860304 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:41:34 -0800 Comment by Paul In SF Don't have nukes? Well they thought about how nice it would be to have nukes, and that's enough to bomb them back to the stone age! Oh, the joys of the preemptive strike doctrine.

]]> Paul In SF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860318 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:58:26 -0800 Comment by fnc Well, I'm sure we can trust everything the White House tells us about other nation's WMD programs. Their credibility is ~solid~ there.

YELLOW CAKE PEOPLE!

]]> fnc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860428 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:50:01 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Fuck you, Phil.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860482 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860482 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:33:34 -0800 Comment by Gitai @4 Seconded. This is a career ender for competent, honest, and dedicated agents.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860584 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/about_that_iranian_nuclear_threat#c860584 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:06:11 -0800