Nuclear Weapons & Iran

Every time anyone bellows the words "nuclear weapons" and "Iran" together, remember these 4 facts: 

1) Iran signed onto, then ratified, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in February 1970. As a non-nuclear-weapon state, Iran officially agreed to the treaty's terms to not acquire nuclear weapons. Please note that the NPT gives all of its signatories the right to enrich nuclear materials for medical and energy use. Although Iran remains a member of the NPT, after trump started bombing Iran in 2025, Iran began threatening to leave the NPT, but has not done so yet.

2) In 2010, Iran's late Ayatollah Khamenei also decreed in a "fatwa" (or religious edict) that nuclear weapons (and ICBM missiles) were against Islamic law (called "najes" or sacrilegious - dirty). The standing edict to never acquire nuclear weapons or ICBMs stood until Khamenei was assassinated by a US-Israeli missile to start the new 2016 bombings. The newly elected Ayatollah of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei (the son), who lost his wife, mother, father, sister and her child and husband in the US-Israeli bombing (and narrowly escaped himself), has not confirmed or revoked his late father's fatwa. 

3) In the 2015 Obama "Iran Nuclear Deal" (voided by trump in 2018), Iran had also agreed (with 6 other countries -  China, France, Russia, the UK, the US & Germany ) to full international inspections of its civilian nuclear power and medicine facilities. Minutes before trump tore up the treaty in his first term, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who were still in Iran, decried trump's rejection of the treaty and insisted that Iran was in full compliance. All the IAEA inspectors then had to leave Iran.

4) Conversely, Israel has never been a member of the NPT and has never even allowed inspections of its nuclear or chemical weapons facilities or arsenal. 

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In the recent US-Israeli war on Iran, the American president, Donald Trump, joined forces with the Zionist state to carry out war crime after war crime against Iranian targets. These aggressive operations persisted until senior American generals finally intervened and declared “No more.” Unlike President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, Trump formed no “coalition of the willing,” sought no United Nations resolution, involved no NATO allies, and did not even request war powers from Congress. The assault on Iran amounted to little more than Trump and Netanyahu unilaterally bombing innocent men, women, and children in an unprovoked campaign, mirroring Israel’s actions in Gaza.The true motivations appear to have been political expediency: distracting from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corruption trials, diverting attention from the Epstein files, and generating profits for their contributors in the weapons manufacturing industry. The claim that Iran represented a genuine nuclear threat to the United States or any other country is not credible.