Ayoon Wa Azan (A wolf in wolves’ clothing)

“Iran’s Plan B for the Bomb” is the title of an article written by two Israeli experts in the security establishment in the Jewish state, that is, in Israeli terrorism. The article ran in The New York Times earlier this month, and the title suggests that Iran has a backup plan to produce a nuclear bomb. The Israeli article states that Iran has 240 kilograms of uranium enriched to 19.5 percent (the limit for civilian enrichment), and therefore has not crossed the ‘red line’ drawn by Israel. However, the article quotes other sources, including one that claimed Iran could increase enrichment to 90 percent in five months and attain the capability of producing a nuclear bomb, and another who said that Iran could do this inside of a month. Since the new Iranian President Hassan Rohani’s reputation is of being a moderate, another Likudnik American article asked, “How Moderate Are Iran’s Missiles?” The article quotes other Likudnik writers like the author, who wrote that while a nuclear bomb may not make Iran a super power, and as Iran is also manufacturing ballistic missiles, it makes it a threat to Israel. Israel is a terrorist state with a nuclear arsenal. It is a threat to the entire world. The terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Rohani is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. This description does not apply to the Israeli prime minister, who is a wolf in wolves’ clothing, and an enemy of peace and humanity like every other member of his fascist government, and his occupation army and its murderers. Netanyahu, who once lived and worked in the United States, appeared on U.S. television shows to warn against the Iranian threat. But which threat is that? In a thousand years, Iran will still not pose a threat to the United States or other major nuclear powers. Its threat may be limited to its neighbors, and Iran does occupy islands that belong to the United Arab Emirates and must withdraw from them. But Iran does not occupy an entire country, murdering its people and attempting to vacate Jerusalem from its native residents, while building settlements on the eve of so-called peace negotiations that are doomed to fail. The Iranian threat in the region is limited. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, or the UAE can respond to it by initiating an overtly military nuclear program, which would be justified by the presence of Israel’s arsenal and a potential arsenal in Iran. I still hope to hear about the start of an Arab military nuclear program, even in Morocco or Algeria, so that the countries of the East and West would rush to rid the Middle East from all nuclear weapons. Israel’s terrorism justifies the terrorism in response and gives it a pretext, and its nuclear arsenal justifies any bid by any country in the region to acquire similar weapons. All we need is for the capable Arab countries to make up their minds. In the meantime, when I hear claims by Israel about enrichment to levels that allow building nuclear bombs and about long-range missiles, I say I hope this is true, in which case the Israeli officials would be telling the truth for the first time in their lives. Netanyahu argues that Rohani is not a moderate, and the U.S. Likudnik media go further as I read, “Rohani’s Cabinet Isn’t ‘Moderate’ Either.’ Why so? The Jewish American author, who supports Israel’s terrorism, quotes another extremist writer like him, to say that Rohani’s choice for defense minister, Hossein Dehgan, has a terrorist past. Again, how so? The Likudnik author wrote (word-for-word) that Dehgan “was implicated in the 1983 bombing that killed 241 American servicemen in Lebanon, according to an Israeli intelligence official.” The official is retired Brig. Gen. Shimon Shapira. In other words, a Likudnik writer is quoting an Israeli military official about Iran, instead of asking him about the number of Palestinian women and children he murdered while occupying their country. I have a thousand complaints on Iranian policies, but they include nothing that Israel would complain against. In truth, I find that what Israel, the state of occupation and murder, complains about represents rare positive things about Iran’s policies, which mostly have a religious cover but in essence they reflect ancient Persian ambitions that are impossible to achieve, so all Iran ends up doing is fueling division and disputes among Muslims. President Rohani called for negotiations with the United States over Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration prefers negotiations, while the Netanyahu government and its Likudnik supporters favor incitement, and have enough Congressmen in the pocket of the pro-Israel lobby to pass new sanctions against Iran. In the meantime, Iran and the U.S. administration are going into negotiations that I do not expect to succeed, because the final say rests in the hands of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the last person to be ‘accused’ of moderation. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arab Today.