• QuentinCallaghanA
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    2 years ago

    Iran may state so officially, but the country’s former nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani admitted that the aim was to create a nuclear weapon. The country’s defence minister Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was assassinated in 2020 by Mossad because he was accused of being “the mastermind of the nuclear weapons programme” by Israel. Abbasi-Davani stated that his importance was correct, and there is a “nuclear system” with military capabilities: Iran has scientific research activities and uranium enrichment facilities which alone can be used for peaceful purposes, but with a missile programme can be used to create the infrastructure necessary for nuclear weapons.

    “Although our stance on nuclear weapons based on the supreme leader’s explicit fatwa regarding nuclear weapons being haram [forbidden by Islamic law] is quite clear, Fakhrizadeh created this system and his concern wasn’t just the defence of our own country,” Abbasi-Davani said in the interview.

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      2 years ago

      Good that you bring up the Israeli occupation. Your quote already makes it clear that its a terrorist entity which murders scientists (civilians). And its the only country in the region which has nuclear weapons. That is much more worrying than Iran.

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        Absolutely. Reading how much they’ve done in the region since the late 1940’s is staggering. They truly have it set up where they play the victim as this helpless baby surrounded by middle eastern terrorists but their mossad’s motto says enough. Then all their elites who have super villain level connections literally own and control the U.S. which is just their personal army.

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        2 years ago

        The worry about Iran and nuclear weapons extends far beyond Israel. The problem is that if Iran gets them, Saudi Arabia and Iran’s other regional adversaries will want to develop nuclear weapons. Then you get more nuclear proliferation, which isn’t good for anyone.

        Killing scientists involved in the nuclear program is kind of a grey area in terms of labels. They’re working on a nuclear program that can quickly be turned to military purposes, and they knew what they signed up for. In that sense, they’re every bit as military as the members of the Manhattan Project, and I have no doubt that they would be seen as fair game.

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            2 years ago

            No, nor am I advocating for Israel to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. But I think it’s inaccurate to label attacks on essentially military targets as being terrorism.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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              2 years ago

              Except that it is terrorism. Israel is not formally at war with Iran, and what it’s doing is conducting state terrorism in Iran.

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                Israel is a terrorist state to be sure, and there are books and books documenting their war crimes and violations of int’l law and geneva accord. You just don’t hear anything about it in mainstream news in the west because, take a few guesses why.