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 * __“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”__**

There’s a new boogey man in town and he’s ready to kill us all. Well, not exactly, but it surely sounds that way when you flip through your digital cable channels and hear the likes of O’Reily, Glen Beck, and every other local new stations ranting about how Iran is ready to blow up the world. Iran has been in the headlines for quite sometime now and it’s for the same reasons Iraq was in the headlines back in 2003. Long story short, the American people were lead to believe that Iraq had nuclear weapons and it turns out they had nothing. The United States and all of its allies claim that Iran is enriching uranium to arm a nuclear weapon. Building nuclear weapons is old news, considering the United States and Israel have a life-time supply of Grade-A nuclear warheads. When you mix the enriching of uranium, an Islamic Republic, media scare-tactics, and news anchors who tend to see things from a single perspective, you have yourself a Frankenstein put together by the hands of Uncle Sam. **Iran has every right to enrich uranium, because nobody stopped the United States from building an arsenal of nuclear weapons, nobody gave Israel trouble for denying inspections for 30 years, and it’s only fair that at least one country from the Middle East can declare itself a super-power.**

The United States has been on Iran’s tail about their uranium enriching facilities for well over a year now. Despite all of the allegations and claims made by the United States, Iran has welcomed all inspections repeatedly proving that they have nothing to hide. It’s becoming clearer that the United States and Israel are being unfair with Iran’s use of uranium. “Foreign Secretary David Miliband acknowledged that the danger of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East was “particularly potent” and refused to rule out military action altogether but he insisted: “We are 100 percent focused on a diplomatic solution”” reports Gordon Thomas of the Daily Express. It’s hard to draw the conclusion that the United States is the aggressor and provoker when the information being fed to the general public is limited and bias in a way where both the US and Israel are always the victims.

The media fails to report that Israel has denied inspections of their nuclear facilities for decades. Being that the United States and Israel are very close allies, Israel faces no punishment or controversy over their nuclear programs. Even though Iran says they’re nuclear research is aimed for peaceful and economic purposes, they still have every right to build a nuclear weapon. Israel views Iran as a threat to its existence, so with the help of the United States, they’ve made all necessary preparations to defend themselves against Iran. American ships began arriving in Israel for a joint-drill in late September. Yaakov Katz of the Jerusalem Post writes, “ The arrival of the ships began a day before Defense Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to fly to Washington for talks with his American counterpart, Robert Gates. Defense officials said that their talks would focus on the Iranian threat, Israeli-US defense cooperation as well as the role Israel will play in the new American missile defense shield announced last week.” The extensive focus on missile defense is a dead giveaway in itself, being that Iran has one of the most elaborate missile arsenals in the whole world. It all adds up to the United States taking all measures and precautions before striking Iran. The US knows Irans strength’s and has already began to plan an extensive defense system for both themselves and Israel.

Regardless of Iran’s continuous denial of building an atomic weapon, the controlled media always finds a way around Iran’s claims and portrays them as dangerous. Anyone that follows American news agencies is now set to believe that Iran is run by a madman who is ready to steam-roll both Israel and the United States as soon as he is done developing a nuclear weapon. “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged last week that existing economic sanctions against Iran were “leaky.” But several senior administration officials said the latest revelations of Iran’s secret nuclear efforts had generated unprecedented solidarity behind new measures to apply pressure to Tehran.” Despite Iran’s cooperation with the US, a loop-hole is always found to portray Iran as a dangerous nation with nuclear capabilities.



As the back and forth talks between the US and Iran continue, the United States has made it clear that putting sanctions on Iran’s economy is still on the table. It’s almost as if the United States is provoking Iran, awaiting the Iranians to slip up so that Israel may initiate a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The world starts to look more like an elementary school playground everyday and the United States definitely takes the “bully” title. Charlie Savage of the New York Times writes “‘While it’s unrealistic to expect that you can isolate Iran from the international economy,’” he said, “‘the narrower and more realistic goal of raising their cost of doing business may change their leaders’ calculations.’” The United States is outright provoking Iran and pushing it into a very uncomfortable corner, awaiting a mistake.