A vacancy in the axis of evil…

Iran – a member of what was labeled ‘the axis of evil‘ by the Bush administration – started engaging in dialog with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Britain, China, France, Russia, the US of A), and Germany in Geneva in October…the primary objective of the talks: to discuss Iran’s (apparently non-existent) nuclear weapons program…

Now here’s the twist in the tale…

Let’s have a show of hands for all those who remember the rhetoric and spin that has been fed to us since 09/11/01 claiming that Iran (like it’s chums in the ‘axis of evil’) has a thriving underground nuclear weapons program that poses a threat to all of humanity…okay: hands down folks – and you better sit down for what’s coming next…

Mohamed El-Baradei – the outgoing Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (a UN outfit) – recently said that (and I paraphrase) “…there is no credible evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons…”

…and this gets better…

Soon after, the New York Times reported on a leaked confidential IAEA document that “…concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired ’sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable’ atom bomb…” [CLICK HERE for the article]

Now do they already have nukes or don’t they??? Do they have the capacity and capability to develop nuclear weapons or not???

I thought we may have had some clarity on this issue from Timothy Hampton, a nuclear expert with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization who had joined the United Nations’ team for the October talks. Unfortunately, Tim died in a bizzare accident at the end of October – after falling off the 17th floor of the United Nations’ Vienna International Center. I wonder what Timothy knew that didn’t sit well with the rest of the team involved in the ‘talks‘? And what the heck was he thinking jumping off the 17th floor of that building?

Reminds me of Dr. Kelly…remember Dr. Kelly??? A British microbiologist and UN weapons inspector, Dr. David Kelly was openly talking to the media about the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq…and was writing a book to that effect with some damaging information about how the British Ministry of Defense (and everyone – all the way up to Tony Blair) was trying very hard to spin otherwise. This was in 2003. Dr. Kelly was found dead under a tree about a mile from his home and the official reports claimed suicide – however, a multitude of medical professionals (13 doctors to be precise) have asserted, and claim to be able to prove without doubt, that it is medically impossible for Dr. Kelly to have died in the manner that the official reports suggest. They have come together and mounted a legal battle against the powers that be to overturn the ‘suicide‘ verdict…following his death, an unopened letter on his desk revealed a nasty message from the ‘heart‘ of the British Government threatening him with ‘consequences‘ (I believe they had threatened specifically to have him ’sacked’) if he did not stop talking about what he knew to the media…

I digress…

El-Baradei’s denial still stands despite the noise in the media about the leaked confidential document from his agency that clearly contradicts his denial - and wait, there’s more…US National Security Adviser James Jones agrees with Baradei…that there is ‘no credible evidence‘ that Iran has (or is developing) nuclear weapons…

So either the ‘god-fearing-fanatically-religious-born-again-believer-thou-shalt-not-bear-false-witness‘ moron Bush Jr., his personal puppet Blair, and their cronies were lying (which is not a far-fetched notion), or this leaked IAEA document is a load of bullshit, or El-Baradei and the new regime in Washington are full of it…

This is truly a very interesting turn of events – up until June of this year, the powers that be were pulling all the strings they could to incite a ‘soft revolution‘ in Iran with the objective of forcing a ‘regime change‘…and they had built their entire case on the spin that Ahmedinajad was ‘satan manifested‘ with an arsenal of nukes and an evil agenda of torching the planet…

Sadly, just like they created the monsters we now call the Taliban to fight a guerilla war with the Soviets, the British and US intelligence, with assistance from Pakistani intelligence, created another dangerous terrorist organization called the ‘Jundullah‘ – comprising primarily of fundamentalist Baluchis seeking autonomy in that region (Iran/Pakistan)…all the while positioning the Jundullah to look like an Iran-grown and supported terrorist front…

Jundullah recently changed its organization’s name to ‘People’s Resistance Movement of Iran‘ – though the real ‘people‘ of that part of the world want to have nothing to do with this movement and its resistance – and its leader, Abdul-Malak Rigi is an ex-Taliban fighter and known smuggler involved in the international narcotics drug ring that is active on the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran – and for those who have done their research, the lucrative ($ 50 billion-ish) narcotics drug trade in that region was created in the ’70s and is still supported and protected by the CIA, and managed today by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai…[CLICK HERE for more on this]

“After meeting with the U.S. officials in the U.S. embassy in Pakistan four years ago, they (the U.S. officials) promised to help us with everything we needed. We received monetary and armed supports from the United States… We received orders from them to carry out the terrors inside Iran.” – The brother of Jundullah’s leader, Abdul-Hamid Rigi, caught for his involvement in detonating a bomb in a mosque prior to Iran’s elections in June…

And all this seems to have been going on since the moron’s (Bush Jr.) regime (if not earlier)…

“…teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups…” – Seymour Hersh (veteran US journalist) – 2006

“The Iranian accusations are true“ - Richard Sale, intelligence correspondent for United Press International, referring to charges that the US is using the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) organization and other groups to carry out cross-border operations in Iran - 2006

“The President hasn’t notified the Congress that American troops are operating inside Iran, so it’s a very serious question about the constitutional framework under which we are now conducting military operations in Iran.” – Sam Gardiner (retired US Army Colonel who specializes in war-game scenarios) – 2006

While I scratch my head in bewilderment at (and struggle to make sense of) these recent events, one thing is certain – Iran is no longer within the ‘axis of evil‘ – whatever the deal is that has been struck, we now have a vacancy for any ‘natural-resource-rich‘ nation out there to fill…send those applications in folks…

I’m very worried though about these terrorist outfits that have been armed and trained by organizations like the CIA that will continue to unleash atrocities on innocent human beings…the great nations of our planet seem to have no use anymore for the Jundullahs and the Mujahideen-e Khalqs that they created and empowered since they seem to have kissed and made up with Ahmedinajad and the Ayatollahs…but these heavily armed, trained mercenaries (just like their Afghan counterparts, the Taliban) - sponsored and paid for by our tax dollars (and by the thriving narcotis drug trade that is propped up and managed by folks on our payroll) – will not stop terrorizing the innocent and helpless citizens of that god-forsaken land for generations to come…

“We started with Iraq in the ‘axis of evil’ side, when we thought they did not yet have nuclear weapons, and that sent the signal to others that they better get them quick.” - Former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA)

- The Ranting Dream