Iran's Nuclear Terror

Axis Of Evil: It's no surprise Iran was behind the vicious bomb attacks that killed 114 in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s. But what is surprising is why Iran did it: Argentina wouldn't help Iran to build nuclear weapons.

In fact, Iran's program has always been about nuclear weapons, not energy. Just look who's in charge: Iran's nuke program is headed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps., the head of the Defense Industries Organization and the leader of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization.

Those who trumpet the recent National Intelligence Estimate, which suggested Iran ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, should perhaps read a little deeper. That same report also said there was "moderate-to-high confidence" that Iran is "keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons." It will have enough raw nuclear material by the middle of the next decade to do so, especially now that Russia is selling it fissionable material.

Tehran's duplicity and its attempts to acquire nuclear weapons with which to dominate the Mideast and bully Europe are nothing new, as Nisman's charges show. Nor is the West's ability to deceive itself about Iran's true intent.

Bush isn’t going to stop them either.

I'm afraid you're right. In order to get the Iranians to back off in Iraq, Mr. Bush has agreed to look the other way on Iran's nukes, choosing his messianic dream of a stable, democratic Iraq that will lead the rest of the Middle East into a brighter tomorrow over promoting American security. And all the anti-ballistic missiles in the world won't stop a device smuggled across our borders that Mr. Bush resolutely refuses to defend.

Argentina: Iran behind bombs at Israeli embassy, Jewish center
by Yossi Melman
Haaretz
Thursday, December 20, 2007
While investigating the two attacks, Nisman found the necessary legal evidence pointing directly to former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and his chief of intelligence, Ali Falahian, for their role in the decision to target the community center.

Argentina has issued an international arrest warrant for Rafsanjani, Falahian and a number of Iranian diplomats for their suspected role in the attack. A special Interpol conference approved the warrant at an international gathering in Marrakesh last month.

Nisman told Haaretz that the Iranians had tried to bribe many countries, mostly from Africa, to vote against the Interpol decision...

Nisman was appointed to head the investigation after it emerged in an Argentine court that the previous investigating judge, Jose Galiano, had paid some $400,000 to a key witness in the case to incriminate former policemen, while diverting blame from Iran and Hezbollah.

Nisman said he did not know whether Galiano was bribed by the Iranians, "but there is no doubt that he was a corrupt investigating judge who did everything possible to distort the investigation and lead it to a dead-end."

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