Marine Corps Intelligence says Iran not threat to US
Posted by USHOSTAGE1 at 10/10/2007 8:05 PM 
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Categories: MI6, Lawyer, San Diego, FBI, CIA, Pentagon, centcom, mi5, ATTORNEY
| Iran 'not threat to US' Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:37:54 PressTV.com | |
Scott Ritter, a former Marine Corps intelligence officer and a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq says Iran has never manifested itself as a serious threat to the national security of the United States, or by extension as a security threat to global security. In an article titled The Big Lie: 'Iran is a threat' , he wrote that the concept of an inherent incompatibility between Iran and the United States is fundamentally flawed, especially from the perspective of Iran. "On every point, the case made against Iran collapses upon closer scrutiny. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), mandated to investigate Iran's nuclear programs, has concluded that there is no evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program. Furthermore, the IAEA has concluded that it is capable of monitoring the Iranian nuclear program to ensure that it does not deviate from the permitted nuclear energy program Iran states to be the exclusive objective of its endeavors," he added. He also dismissed the allegations that Iran's support of the Lebanese Hezbollah constituted a threat to American national security, arguing that the support is primarily defensive in nature, designed to assist Hezbollah in deterring and repelling an Israeli assault of sovereign Lebanese territory. "The US claims concerning Iranian interference in both Iraq and Afghanistan ignore the reality that both nations border Iran, both nations were invaded and occupied by the United States, not Iran, and that Iran has a history of conflict with both nations that dictates a keen interest concerning the internal domestic affairs of both nations," Ritter said. "The United States continues to exaggerate the nature of Iranian involvement in Iraq, arresting “intelligence operatives” who later turned out to be economic and diplomatic officials invited to Iraq by the Iraqi government itself. Most if not all the claims made by the United States concerning Iranian military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been backed up with anything stronger than rhetoric, and more often than not are subsequently contradicted by other military and governmental officials, citing a lack of specific evidence," he added. He slammed "the media hype" concerning alleged statements made by Iran's President Ahmadinejad saying it created and sustained "the myth" that Iran seeks the destruction of Israel. The analyst say Ahmadinejad never articulated an Iranian policy objective to destroy Israel, rather noting that Israel's policies would lead to its “vanishing from the pages of time." "The fact of the matter is that the 'Iranian Threat' is derived solely from the rhetoric of those who appear to seek confrontation between the United States and Iran, and largely divorced from fact-based reality. A recent request on the part of Iran to allow President Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at 'ground zero' in Manhattan was rejected by New York City officials. The resulting public outcry condemned the Iranian initiative as an affront to all Americans, citing Iran's alleged policies of supporting terrorism. This knee-jerk reaction ignores the reality that Iran was violently opposed to al-Qaeda's presence in Afghanistan throughout the 1990's leading up to 2001, and that Iran was one of the first Muslim nations to condemn the terror attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, "Ritter concluded. RE/RE |
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