Bethel Finance: Robert D. Onley: Israel’s only ally is the truth

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Fallout from the misleading intelligence that led to the 2003 War in Iraq is now leading the international community into dangerous, reactive skepticism of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) damning report on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Despite the comprehensive, wide-ranging report, Russia and China have already rejected the possibility of increasing punitive sanctions against Iran, arguing that the United Kingdom, France and the United States will use sanctions as an “instrument for regime change in Iran.” Russia and China have dismissed the IAEA report as a manufactured casus belli to attack Iran, and have painted Yukiya Amano, the head of the IAEA, as a pro-Western dupe. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov obliquely warned the West that attacking Iran would be “a very serious mistake.” Major news outlets across the world are similarly casting doubt on IAEA claims that Iran is actively working on nukes.

Some skeptics quickly pointed out that Iran’s research into the design of nuclear weapons is not a breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), of which Iran is a signatory state and is thus internationally bound not to “manufacture” or otherwise “acquire” nuclear weapons. However, such a suggestion completely misses the point, and highlights the dangerous naivety of the international community’s reactive scepticism toward intelligence on Iranian nukes.

The indisputable facts about Iran’s covert nuclear weapons research are as follows. Since 2003, Iran has conducted extensive research into bomb designs and detonators, continued development of intercontinental ballistic missiles at covertly constructed numerous weapons-related facilities, notably the Fordow uranium enrichment facility — built inside of a mountain, itself inside of a military base. Iran did these things while repeatedly claiming its nuclear program is for “peaceful” purposes only.

The most tragic casualty in all of this misguided scepticism is the truth itself. The fact that a 25-page report from the IAEA — the one global institution tasked with protecting the planet from the proliferation of nuclear weapons — can so blithely and reactively be dismissed as a lie, emphasizes the complete breakdown in confidence in our international institutions. A country with a President who openly and callously denies that the Holocaust occurred, is now at the threshold of possessing the very weaponry that could cause a second Holocaust, and the world’s leaders would prefer to bicker over the motivation of those who collected the evidence to make that case.

Of course, there are good reasons to not attack Iran. The world, and the Middle East specifically, are in poor enough shape as it is. If Israel decides that it must undertake unilateral military action against Iran, the fragile state of the world notwithstanding, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must present all of Israel’s intelligence on Iranian nukes to the UN Security Council, and by extension, the world at large.

Now is the time to irrefutably prove that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and thus represents a threat to the peace and future stability of the world. The truth on this matter cannot be left in any doubt, because the truth — about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the threat from Iran — is Israel’s only real ally.