cia report found no firm evidence of iran nuclear weapons program- are they lying to us again?
951895
I suppose that North Korea does not have any such program either . By the way , that report is from almost 3 years ago .
1119302
Consider this. NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WAS FOUND.\n\nWhy  woud a leader of his country tell his neighborhing enemies that he has NO WEAPONS AT ALL!!!!\n\nOf course your going to lie!!! to PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE!!!!\n\nAnd if Sadams crimes were so vulgar why dont the Iranians release him to the USA? They wont cause THEY DONT EVEN LIKE THE USA GOVERNMETN INVOLVED TOO MUCH\n\nIf you want the Iraqies to suffer like we americans do, give them Celion Dion and Britney spears!!!!\n\nThey'll think twice about being americanized
799162
First, if anybody believes we're going to invade either North Korea or Iran, then they are complete fools.\n\nSecond, if anybody believes that NKorea or Iran are going nuclear because of the foolish idea we'd invade them, they're even bigger fools than the complete fools.\n\nNKorea and Iran started their nuclear programs long before there was any threat from the US.\n\nWhy is the rest of the world so ignorant of simple historic fact?\n----------\nUh, what evidence? You somehow have detailed knowledge of the NKorean nuclear program? Perhaps it slowed until Clinton gave them 2 nuclear reactors.
554614
no, but the US attacked them unprovoked.  The Iranian Prime minister in the 50's Mohammad Mossadegh enforced an Iranian law that said their oil belonged to them.  British Petroleum was taking their oil at dirt cheap prices at the time, so Mossadegh kicked them out.  Then the US brought in the CIA and kicked out Mossadegh.  They financed an army and arrested him.  Then they tried him for "treason".  This is crazy, because he had support of the people in Iran.  Then we moved in and started taking their oil.\n\nThis was the US's first act of imperalism and many more followed.  This history of the CIA is the dark side of every president.  The head of the CIA is appointed by the President and has no accountability other than the Presidents approval.\n\ntheir have been reforms such as the Freedom of Information act, but their is no system of checks and Ballances and if no one sues the CIA then they are not held accountable.\n\nFurthermore, Iran is one of the most ancient Civilzations still in existence.  they have been invaded, so they have several time had to fight people such as the Mongols for freedom, but they have never gone on an Imperalistic fantasy such as the Nazi's or America
78454
Bush already acknowledged that the WMD info was flawed, but we have removed a dictator that had killed many more of his own citizens than all of our bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan have even come close to killing.\n\nIs that justification? Perhaps, perhaps not. Still, Pesident Bush and this war have succeeded in doing one thing that has been left unanswered for years: for many years Islamic extremists have pointed to America as being a "paper tiger"; lots of growling, but no teeth or claws. We have now shown our teeth, our claws, and we have a very mean bite. \n\nI'm not saying this to debate right or wrong, just making a statement of fact.
637318
they ain't gonna. u.s. is hypocrits. they worry about iran while we are sitting on our tons and tons of nuclear arsenal.
331570
It is evident that Iran's efforts are focused both on uranium enrichment and a parallel plutonium effort. Iran claims it is trying to establish a complete nuclear fuel cycle to support a civilian energy program, but this same fuel cycle would be applicable to a nuclear weapons development program. Iran appears to have spread their nuclear activities around a number of sites to reduce the risk of detection or attack. \n\nIran does not currently have nuclear weapons, and would appear to be about two years away from acquiring nuclear weapons. By some time in 2006, however, Iran could be producting fissile material for atomic bombs using both uranium enriched at Natanz and plutonium produced at Arak. The Natanz facility might produce enough uranium for about five bombs every year, and the Arak facility might produced enough plutonium for as many as three bombs every year.
801984
I think that the CIA probably knows more than the White House does about Iran, and if the White House is smart, they will listen to the CIA, and hopefully they will continue to have an open dialogue with Iran. As we learned with Iraq, war is not the way you deal with rogue states.
407623
I know we have one under development & partially deployed, but one fully operational?  Not yet.\n\nBut, then again, it is entirely possible it's finished but classified.  Although given the number of low-level leaks people make in the CIA & Pentagon about stuff they don't like, we'd probably have heard by now.
1047168
This is an awesome question. I see what you mean by the tactics. Iran is surrounded. I think it may have been just dumb luck though.
680493
The only comments by the US that are relevant to Iran is, it will not allow Iran to be a Nuclear power.  IT has stated, as has the European countries in the UN, that it believes that Iran is seeking to become a Nuclear power.  If the US is a liar on that basis, then so are the European powers.  The consensus is, that Iran is not being truthful about it's intentions relative to nuclear power.  I agree with that consensus!
320066
look, iran doesnt have the equipment to enrich uranium enough for weapons grade, thats it. no matter what youve been told or think you know. listen to dr. prather, the guy with 43 years atomic energy/weapons expirience. HEs the guy the UN sends in when they want to know what up. http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=131\nstop with the paranoia. bush decided long ago to go in, dont worry, youll get your war.
300195
Iran has no nukes, independant inspections have proved this, they do have a few certerfuges (used to enrich uranium), and a small amount of enriched uranium... for the most part, even our government recognizes the fact that as of yet Iran doesn't have nuclear bombs... in fact, Iran is many years away from developing even a simple uranium fission bomb (in my opinion, probably 4-10 years if advancement continues at its current rate)... however, they are on "the path" to develop such devices... but as of now, the advancement of thier nuclear program depends ENTIRELY on forign technology (yea, they could eventualy build it, but it may then take them more like 30-40 years), and machienery (that is how they got centerfuges, they didn't build them)... they do have radiologicly active munitions ("uranium bullets"), but most countries do, and they are not a signifigant threat (the bullets are made from depleted Uranium)...\n\n(dependant mainly on thier design choice) They are far from developing the hardest (scientificly speaking) parts of a nuclear device, such as the "pit", which is primarily made of plutonium, the technology to machine the "lense" (high explosive charges), and the trigger.
893248
If they are smart enough NEVER...\nAs long as there is no proof of nuclear weapons being build,there is no reason for someone to attack Iran...
808745
Sala'm Aga / Khanum!\n\nDo you want to imply that Iran's case is similar to that of the Iraq during last days of Saddam when he was denying having any WMD and USA was insisting that he was lying?\n\nIn any case, there is a great difference in the analogy. Iran has been more-or-less positively identified by the IAEA to be moving towards a secret nuclear weapons program, as per circumstantial evidences its inspectors and 'monitors' has obtained.\n\nSo, in my personal view, the President of Iran Mr. Ahmedinezad is playing high-wire act and also brinkmanship with the West (not only with USA). I am a Muslim and I worked in Iranian Air Force for two years as civilian specialist and I have no ill feeling for the Iranian people.\n\nGod forbid, if Iranian people had to live the miserable life that of Iraq then it would be solely the present government of Iran that would be held responsible to ignore numerous warnings to refrain from its present belligerent attitude and sit with world community and sort out its differences across the table.\n\nInshaAllah we hope major catastrophe could be averted and Iranians can live and prosper and be the Malaysia of the Middle East!\n\nKhuda Hafez
612733
The media didn't lie to is about Iraq. That was the present Administration. They manipulated the media to get what they wanted. Especially in the aftermath of 9/11. The U.S. Media reported that there were thousands of people in the square when Saddam's statue was pulled down. But if you look at other media sources, it was only a couple of hundred that had been bused in from Jordan. \n\nThere are too many intel sources this time around for us to ignore Iran. Something a lot of us were clammering about before we inveded Iraq. I've worked closely with the intel community and have several friends that got out of the service because this administration "cooked" intel until it met there purposes. We knew that we were going to invade Iraq a couple days after 9/11. We didn't get requests for any information about Afghanistan until about 10 later. \n\nDon't blame the media. Blame the Bush administration.\n\nThe WMD case was weak at best. There was never any proof that anything got shipped to Syria. We were watching for that. So again, another lie. The supposed mobile WMD labs turned out to be nothing more than hydrogen pumps for weather balloons.
979010
As a signer to the nuclear NPT, Iran has the RIGHT to enrich uranium for power plant fuel. As the CIA and IAEA documents have stated over and over- time after time, there is ZERO evidence that Iran is even seeking weapons. The only people who say they are is BushCo (the people most interested in manufacturing a reason to invade and steal their oil). Bush is counting on Americans not knowing the difference between "weapons" grade and "fuel" grade uranium enrichment (TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THINGS). The IAEA and CIA both know that IRAN is complying with the NPT. War mongering Bush is desperately making up outrageous reasons to invade...and I wouldn't put a FALSE FLAG OPERATION past him.\n\nInteresting fact: Israel isn't a signer of the NPT yet has an assload of nuclear bombs.....hmmmm.