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Ron Paul: "Leave Iran Alone!"
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kramerdsp on Sep 30, 2009
From his office in Lake Jackson, Texas, Ron Paul "exposes the latest pro-war propaganda and discusses how our current interventionist foreign policy benefits neither the American people nor our national security situation."
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- Jake in Houston: There seems to be a lot of hype and attention this weekend concerning the Iranian nuclear program. Why is that?
- Ron Paul: I don’t think it’s by accident.
- You know, all of a sudden it burst that up in Pittsburgh and all these charges were made.
- I think the number one reason why this all broke, because there’s really nothing new about what’s going on over in Iran.
- I think the reason is that the very, very powerful and the most militant neo-cons are very worried
- about Obama and other countries meeting with Iran and actually having negotiations with the government of Iran and they want to see it stopped.
- I don’t think we have an anti-neocon administration, but I do think some of the people outside the administration, are very, very intent
- on stopping the negotiation and pursuing a very hard-line policy toward the Iranians.
- The big charge was that all of a sudden there was this secret nuclear plant being built in Qom and that it had not been reported.
- Quite frankly, the way it got reported in the news was the Iranians reported it to IAEA, the United Nations investigation team
- and that’s how it became public and all of a sudden, they were jumped on for having done something secret.
- Also, the truth is the United States knew about this since 2006.
- Obama was briefed on this in November right after he was elected.
- In 2007, there was an NIE, an intelligence estimate made in 2007, a year after we found out that they were doing something in Qom
- and it wasn’t even reported and the CIA report at that time
- said there was no evidence that the Iranians had been working on a nuclear weapon since 2003, so this is very much old news.
- Now, the reason the argument is going on is, what does the law say?
- The Iranians, unlike three other countries in the Middle East, they don’t even pay any attention to
- and don’t even belong to the Non-Proliferation Treaty,
- but the Iranians’ obligation under the law is that six months before they go into production,
- to do any enrichment for peaceful purposes, they have to notify the United Nations inspectors and they did exactly that,
- and yet they’re yelling and screaming now that they broke the law, that they’re on the verge of building a bomb.
- You know what this sounds like? It sounds like warmongering.
- It sounds like the same old stuff that we heard prior to the Iraqi war.
- Remember the yellow cake with forged papers trying to say that Saddam Hussein was buying yellow cake
- and he was on the verge of a nuclear weapon or had nuclear weapons?
- It’s the same old thing going on and all the lies told that we were going to march in and find these nuclear weapons.
- So it’s hysteria. It’s warmongering and
- unfortunately, the major media has not reported anything in balance whatsoever.
- They keep saying that the Iranians are on the verge. Of course, they’re talking tough.
- That’s the way they operate over there. It’s a tough neighborhood. That’s how they rise to power, so they are…
- you know, in many ways, rude and loudmouth, but that’s how tough guys exist over there
- and yet our response to them has been pretty irrational as well because I think the determination to add sanctions.
- Right now, they continue this clamor for sanctions on the Iranians.
- “Don’t allow one drop of gasoline to be imported into the Iranians. Punish the people of Iran
- and that will bring them to their knees and they’ll throw out their ayatollahs and they’ll be friends with the West.”
- Quite frankly, it does exactly the opposite.
- It unifies the people of Iran. It does not help the dissidents in Iran and it actually…
- once we do this, pursue a policy like this, the real beneficiary are the Chinese because the Chinese happen to have a lot of dollars.
- They have a trillion dollars of our money, but they are not using bombs and weapons to influence and try to gain, you know, advantages in Iran.
- What they’re doing is they’re going in there and investing their money, so we, I believe, are on a completely wrong track.
- I think this is hysterical reaction that we ought to sit back and relax and look at the truth.
- One of the reasons why this argument came up was that a few years ago, I think it was in 2003,
- the Iranians did sign a supplemental protocol with the West and they were in negotiations,
- and the protocol said that they would even report when they start building a nuclear facility,
- not just when they were getting ready to go into production, six months before production, but just when they started to build it.
- Now, they are building it and they’re said to be in violation of this. But the whole thing is, is that supplemental protocol,
- which was not a part of the original Non-Proliferation Treaty, they signed this willingly and it was never ratified by their parliament.
- You know, it would be like us having a president sign a treaty and never ratified by the Senate, it wouldn’t be the law of the land.
- And then the Iranian government announced precisely that they’re no longer following it because the negotiations were suspended by the West.
- They were negotiating with the Iranians and trying to come to an agreement and finally, they just said,
- “No, we’re not going to do it. If you’re not going to negotiate with us, we’re not going to follow this voluntary protocol.”
- But the United Nations, the IAEA has never found the Iranians at fault. They have never been sanctioned.
- They have never broken the law. They have lived up to their commitment.
- Now, the real problem politically is defending the kind of people who run Iran,
- but the whole truth is if you’re going to try to operate within the international law,
- we shouldn’t be so arrogant as to say that they’re doing such and such and they haven’t done it or they haven’t broken the law.
- So it’s time that we pay attention to our promises and our commitments rather than intimidating and threatening,
- putting on sanctions, which are an act of war and then setting the stage for ultimately bombing these facilities.
- So to me, it sounds a whole lot like déjà vu,
- exactly the kind of nonsense that led us into a no-win, nonsensical war in Iraq where we’re still bogged down.
- We’re bogged down in Afghanistan and Pakistan and here they are trying to stir up another fight with another country.
- It is of no benefit to the American people. It is of no benefit to our national security interest
- and the sooner we get to the bottom of this and know the facts, the better off we would be as Americans.


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