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Why is it OKAY for Israel, India, and Pakistan to possess and maintain nuclear weapons, but not Iran?

Is this not the same exact bullshit we saw with Iraq? Why was OKAY for Israel, India, and Pakistan to have weapons of mass destruction, but not Iraq? (and those WMD in Iraq were lies sold to Americans by Israel, the US government, and the Lying Media!) Are we going to sit back and let history repeat and the US and Israel murder hundreds of thousands more innocent people?

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran

70% Of American Believe Iran has Nuclear Weapons: Poll

By Political Ticker

Seven in 10 Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll.

Friday's release of the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey comes just hours after Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the Islamic republic isn't seeking and doesn't believe in pursuing nuclear weapons. Khamenei was responding to a draft United Nations report that said that Iran may be working to develop a nuclear weapon.

The poll indicates that 71 percent of the public says Iran has nuclear weapons, with just over one in four disagreeing. More than six in ten think the U.S. should take economic and diplomatic efforts to get Iran to shut down their nuclear program, with only a quarter calling for immediate military action.

"But if economic and diplomatic efforts fail, support for military action rises to 59 percent, with only 39 percent opposing military action under those circumstances," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

The survey also indicates that support is dropping for how President Obama handled the attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day, but the change seems unrelated to the controversy over reading the suspect his rights. In early January, 57 percent of the public approved of how Obama reacted to that incident, but that figure has dropped 12 points, with 47 percent now saying they disapprove of how Obama handled the situation.

"Critics have asserted that the FBI should not have read Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab his Miranda rights. But two-thirds think the FBI should have told AbdulMutallab that he had the right to remain silent, and 56 percent say that the FBI should do that with any terrorist suspect in custody," adds Holland.

But according to the poll, nearly six in ten continue to believe that the suspect should be tried in a military court, not a civilian court.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

–CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report

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Iran and The International Bureau of Double Standards: Video - Demonstrating that the continued attacks being made on Iran, by presidents, prime ministers and the mass media, are smokescreens for the real danger to world peace: Israel and more lies about weapons of mass destruction.

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France to aid Jordan in realizing 'nuclear ambitions'

(Why is it okay for Jordan to have nuclear ambitions and capabilities but not Iran?)

Visiting French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Sunday his country will help Jordan realize its nuclear ambitions with the signing of an agreement Sunday to mine its uranium reserves.

Jordan's peaceful nuclear development - backed by the United States - will generate electricity and desalinate water.

The Jordanian government said it hoped nuclear energy will provide 30 percent of the country's electricity by 2030.

Last year, Jordan's King Abdullah II told Haaretz of Jordan's plan to build nuclear power plants, saying that "what Jordan is going to do through its peaceful nuclear energy program is show the region how a country that wants to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes [can] do it right."

"The reactors we are looking at are Generation III-plus, which is by far the safest and most capable technology. It is safe from earthquakes, natural disasters, terrorist attacks. The technology we are looking at is one, if not two, generations ahead of what you have. We will, and we all should, be transparent when it comes to nuclear energy," Abdullah told Haaretz.

When asked when this transparency also applies to neighboring Israel, Abdullah said: "Everybody. The problem that we have when it comes to the nuclear issue is that there is no transparency."

"It's sort of a dark subject. And that applies to Israel as it applies to other countries. I think we are trying to be the model of how to do the process correctly," Abdullah said.

Last year, Jordan signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement with Russia, according to which Moscow will provide the Hashemite Kingdom with power plants, nuclear research facilities, and training centers.

"We intend to cooperate in building nuclear power plants... and plan to build four plants in Jordan in the coming decades," Sergei Kiriyenko, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation, told the RIA Novosti news agency.

http://www.haaretz.com

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Clinton criticized for dodging question on Israel nukes

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is criticized for dodging a question on Israel's nuclear arsenal during a "town hall" meeting at a Jeddah college.

Mariyam Alavi, a Saudi student, asked Clinton last Tuesday about Washington's stance on the existence of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

"I did not get a straight answer," Alavi said in a letter published in Arab News, AFP reported.

"My question was simple and direct enough," she wrote, but Clinton's response "was very unsatisfying."

The 12th grader at the International Indian School in Jeddah, who attended the meeting at the elite Dar al-Hekma College, noted that the US top diplomat only detailed Iran's nuclear program, without mentioning Israel.

If the Americans "so vehemently oppose Iran's nuclear program," she had asked, "then why isn't the US asking Israel to give up their nuclear weapons?"

The student has questioned Washington's double standard toward Iran's nuclear program and accused Washington of hypocrisy.

"Clinton said that the United States, under the able leadership of President Barack Obama, was trying to repair and strengthen its ties with the Muslim world," Alavi said.

"It is high time she realized it couldn't be done without answering the questions uppermost in the minds of the Middle East people," she added.

Clinton had been on a three-day trip to Qatar and Saudi Arabia to discuss the latest regional developments, including Iran's nuclear program.

The world powers, led by the US, are attempting to stop the Islamic Republic's nuclear enrichment program — which Tehran says it is entitled to as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

While the Western powers accuse Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program, they have kept mum Israel, which reportedly has about 200 nuclear war head.

Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful and aimed at the civilian application of the technology

http://www.presstv.ir

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Why Iran? Why Does the US Use Two Sets of Weights and Measures?

By Emir Sader

Iran remains the focus of the country's special "axis of evil," which was formally abolished, but not in reality, by the U.S. It is accompanied by Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, in addition to North Korea, among others. Why Iran? The criteria mentioned by Hillary Clinton cannot be understood. Is it the risk of manufacturing nuclear weapons? Israel has openly implied that these weapons exist and threaten weekly to bomb Iran. Is it the risk of becoming a dictatorship? And what are countries like Saudi Arabia or Egypt, but dictatorships?

Is it that Iran represents a threat to its neighbors? Iran has not invaded any other country nor occupied any foreign territory. Since Israel occupies the Palestinian territories for over four decades and have proven to possess nuclear weapons, that cannot be it.

Iran is a religious state, Islamic, which favors the Shiites. But Israel is a Jewish state, no constitution, but favors the Jews, and the Palestinians who comprise 1 / 4 of the population, are forced to be second-class citizens.

Why two weights and two measures? Just because Israel is a valued ally in the U.S. - the country that receives more U.S. aid than any other in the world - while Iran is opposing the U.S. Simply this. To check this notice that Hillary does not criticize the dictatorships in Saudi Arabia or Egypt - these, being the second in North American military aid? Because they are faithful allies to the U.S.

What about the Treaty on nuclear weapons? It is not one of denuclearization, but non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. That is, to have nuclear weapons, and to try to prevent others from having them. China broke the door and immediately joined the Security Council when it manufactured nuclear weapons. It is clear that Pakistan, India and Israel have nuclear weapons. The U.S. not only has an attitude quite different for Israel, but supports it militarily - including in nuclear terms - only these certain countries.

The fight has to be for denuclearization. Why does a country need to have nuclear weapons? For what purpose?

The non-proliferation treaty aims to protect the nuclear power of the great powers, those that are more involved in wars and in the manufacture of armaments. Denuclearization is the struggle to end nuclear weapons. Beginning with those holding the largest stockpiles of the world.

Translated from the Portuguese version by:

Lisa KARPOVA

PRAVDA.Ru

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