@@ U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry @@
Arash
March 6, 2006
U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry
Cheney Rumsfeld & Wolfowitz behind Iran Nuclear Program initiated during Ford
Administration
By Ed Haas
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford signed a directive that granted Iran the
opportunity to purchase U.S. built reprocessing equipment and facilities designed to
extract plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. [1]
When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August 1974, the current Vice President of
the United States, Richard B. Cheney served on the transition team and later as
Deputy Assistant to the President. In November 1975, he was named Assistant to the
President and White House Chief of Staff, a position he held throughout the remainder
of the Ford Administration. [2]
In August 1974, the current Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld served as
Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He then became Chief
of Staff of the White House and a member of the President's Cabinet (1974-1975) [3]
and was the Ford Administration’s Secretary of Defense from 1975–1977.
The current President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz served in the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency under President Gerald Ford. [4] Wolfowitz is considered as a
prominent architect of the Bush Doctrine, which has come to be identified with a
policy that permits pre-emptive war against potential aggressors before they are
capable of mounting attacks against the United States.
According to Washington Post Staff Writer Dafna Linzer, “Ford’s team endorsed Iranian
plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a
multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of
plutonium and enriched uranium – the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be
shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is
generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weopons builders”. [5]
What the current Bush Administration is asserting, particularly through its news
agency Fox News, is that it needs to prevent Iran from achieving the exact same
nuclear capabilities that President Ford and his key appointees, Cheney, Rumsfeld,
and Wolfowitz were encouraging Iran to accomplish 30 years ago. [6]
Iran, a party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), is guaranteed the right
to develop peaceful nuclear power programs [7] – regardless of whether the United
States approves or disapproves the politics or political leadership of that country;
a point that Iran has repeated over and over again. [8]
For 30 years, Iran has proclaimed that it needs nuclear power since its oil and gas
supplies are limited, just like the United States, and therefore has the legal right
to produce and operate nuclear power plants. Thirty years ago, Dick Cheney and Donald
Rumsfeld agreed. Today, Cheney and Rumsfeld appear to be crawling out of their skins
with uncontrollable militarized lust for control of Iranian oil fields via a U.S.
occupied, Iran.
The NEO-CON war drumbeaters have already devised their plans for the liberation of
the people again, this time Iranian people, and making things all better, just like
they have done in Iraq. Scary stuff, but it is true. In preparation, the Bush
Administration has primed the mainstream media so effectively that 8 out of 10
Americans believe Iran poises an immediate nuclear threat to the United States.
The President’s recent and risky travel to regional nuclear powers, Pakistan and
India, no doubt also served as a strategic warning to those countries to prepare for
the certain public backlash to be expected once the U.S. or Israel begins to drop
bombs on Iran.
It is also worth noting that in 2000, the World Bank resumed making loans to Iran. As
of June 30, 2004, the World Bank as made 51 loans valued at $2.6 billion to Iran. The
World Bank gets its funds from the International Monetary Fund, which in turn, gets
its money from member nation dues / contributions. The United States is required to
contribute $37.2 billion per year into the IMF. The Federal Reserve Banking Cartel
orchestrated this money scheme so that it can continue to print and loan astronomical
numbers of debt notes.
If the American people understood that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Congress have
been funding many activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran, most would be skeptical
of the federal government’s current claim that Iran’s 30 year old, U.S. sanctioned,
nuclear program is somehow now an immediate threat to the security of the United
States. The IMF and the World Bank create just enough degrees of separation to shield
the government from the people recognizing that the federal government has fed the
dog well that it now claims will bite if we do not ‘put it down’ with a pre-emptive
strike.
With Paul Wolfowitz at the helm of the World Bank, one has to wonder if once again
the Federal Reserve has positioned itself to fund both sides of a warring conflict.
One thing is certain; loaning money to fund both sides of a war is a perfected craft
of the member banks of the Federal Reserve, which is interested only in loan
collateral and interest payments.
Patriotism is not part of the equation. What is most disturbing about the
relationship between the Fed, IMF, and World Bank is that the $37.2 billion the U.S.
is obligated to pay to the IMF annually, is actually secured by the American
taxpayer. We the People, and the ability of the U.S. Congress to confiscate our
wealth through that unconstitutional apparatus referred to as a federal income tax,
makes loaning money to the Islamic Republic of Iran easy because if Iran defaults on
its World Bank loans, the U.S. portions of the loans work their way back to the
lender of last resort, which is the U.S. Congress.
When the U.S. Congress responds to failed loans and failed banking institutions, they
assume responsibility for the loan amount, and pass the burden of repayment onto the
American people.
Finally, but very much part of the U.S. government’s charade aimed at deceiving the
American people into believing that the U.S. has played no part in the development of
Iran or its nuclear power programs, is the absolute economic threat that Iran poses
to the global value of the U.S. dollar. [9]
Unless the U.S. intervenes, on March 20, 2006 the world will have the option of
purchasing oil with euros instead of dollars through the opening of the Iranian Oil
Bourse. The Iran Oil Bourse will be the third exchange in which global oil
transactions will be executed.
While financial analysts debate whether such an exchange operating solely in euros
will have the potential to collapse the U.S. economy, the complete silence of the
mainstream media regarding this most important untold story can be interpreted as a
sign that this suggested economic threat is real.
As the Bush Administration has proven itself to be the most dishonest, secretive
presidency in the history of the United States, it has repeatedly demonstrated that
the truth about its motives and agendas can only be found in what is not being
reported to the American people.
And if the Iran nuclear threat rhetoric is the firewall that the U.S. government is
hiding the U.S. dollar global supremacy behind, than any military action in Iran will
be solely on behalf of the member banks of the Federal Reserve – at the expense of
American sons and daughters serving in the U.S. military and at the burden of the
U.S. taxpayer who is already indebted to the federal government to the tune of $28
thousand, which is each and every American’s current share of the Federal Reserve /
U.S. Congress banking cartel produced national debt - $28,000 and growing faster than
ever!
Here’s a patriotic challenge and very American gut check for your consideration: Next
time you hold your children and / or grandchildren, look them in the eye and explain
to them how they are, right at this very moment, indebted to the federal government
of the United States of America, to the tune of $28,000, and then ask yourself how
you allowed it to happen. Sobering fact that feels better to ignore, does it not?
But hell, we’re spreading democracy, right? I don’t think so, and hopefully soon,
neither will you.
* Freelance writer / author, Ed Haas, is the editor and columnist for the Muckraker
Report. Get smart. Read the Muckraker Report (http://teamliberty.net). To learn more
about Ed’s current and previous work, visit Crafting Prose
(http://craftingprose.com).
Notes:
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[1] A number of declassified documents were found on the website of the President
Ford
Library and Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan (http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov). Two
documents in particular, dated April 22, 1975 and April 20, 1976, show that the
United States and Iran held negotiations for cooperation in the use of nuclear energy
and the United States was willing to help Iran by setting up uranium enrichment and
fuel reprocessing facilities.
National Security Study Memorandum 219
US-Iran Agreement on Cooperation in Civil Uses of Atomic Energy (March 14, 1975)
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nssm219a.htm
National Security Decision Memorandum 292
US-Iran Nuclear Cooperation (April 22, 1975)
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm292a.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm292b.htm
National Security Decision Memorandum 324
Negotiation of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran (April 20, 1976)
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm324a.htm
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nsdm324b.htm
National Security Study Memorandum 238
U.S Policy Toward the Persian Gulf (February 13, 1976)
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/document/nsdmnssm/nssm238a.htm
[2] The White House, Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/ [Accessed March 4, 2006]
[3] United States Department of Defense, Biography – Donald H. Rumsfeld,
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/rumsfeld.html [Accessed March 4, 2006]
[4] Washington Post, "Realism, Rewarded", George F. Will, May 12, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/11/AR2005051101815.html
[Accessed March 4, 2006]
[5] Washington Post, "Past Arguments Don’t Square with Current Iran Policy", Dafna
Linzer, March 27, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3983-2005Mar26.html [Accessed March 4,
2006]
[6] Pacific News, "U.S. Instigated Iran's Nuclear Program 30 Years Ago", William O.
Beeman, January 30, 2006.
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=ac517cce4e1b80d6fa76f4089315a243
[Accessed March 4, 2006]
[7] Iran's Inalienable Right to Nuclear Energy Guaranteed under Article IV of the NPT
1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of
all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I
and II of this Treaty.
2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to
participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific
and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the
Treaty in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together
with other States or international organizations to the further development of the
applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories
of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the
needs of the developing areas of the world.
http://www.un.org/events/npt2005/npttreaty.html
[8] Setting the Record Straight about Iran's Nuclear Program
http://www.iran-un.org/announcements.php?ID=2
[9] Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Understanding the Planned Assault
on Iran
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=KEE20060210&articleId=1936
[10] Dr. James Gordon Prather's archives on Iranian nuclear program
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/
[11] Centre for Research on Globalization: IRAN
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=newsHighlights&newsId=18
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAA20060306&articleId=2067