1976: U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear
energy industry
March 5, 2006 – In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford
signed a directive that granted Iran the opportunity
to purchase U.S. built reprocessing equipment and
facilities designed to extract plutonium from nuclear
reactor fuel.
When Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency in August
1974, the current Vice President of the United States,
Richard B Cheney served on the transition team and
later as Deputy Assistant to the President. In
November 1975, he was named Assistant to the President
and White House Chief of Staff, a position he held
throughout the remainder of the Ford
Administration.[1]
In August 1974, the current Secretary of Defense,
Donald H. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the
transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He
then became Chief of Staff of the White House and a
member of the President’s Cabinet (1974-1975)[2] and
was the Ford Administration’s Secretary of Defense
from 1975–1977.
The current President of the World Bank, Paul
Wolfowitz served in the Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency under President Gerald Ford.[3] Wolfowitz is
considered as a prominent architect of the Bush
Doctrine, which has come to be identified with a
policy that permits pre-emptive war against potential
aggressors before they are capable of mounting attacks
against the United States.
According to Washington Post Staff Writer Dafna
Linzer, “Ford’s team endorsed Iranian plans to build a
massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard
to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have
given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium
and enriched uranium – the two pathways to a nuclear
bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear
warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally
considered the most significant obstacle to would-be
weopons builders.”[4]
What the current Bush Administration is asserting,
particularly through its news agency Fox News, or as I
like to call it, the Fascist Opinion X-change, is that
it needs to prevent Iran from achieving the exact same
nuclear capabilities that President Ford and his key
appointees, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz were
encouraging Iran to accomplish 30 years ago. Iran, a
party to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, is
guaranteed the right to develop peaceful nuclear power
programs – regardless of whether the United States
approves or disapproves the politics or political
leadership of that country; a point that Iran has
repeated over and over again. For 30 years, Iran has
proclaimed that it needs nuclear power since its oil
and gas supplies are limited, just like the United
States, and therefore has the legal right to produce
and operate nuclear power plants. Thirty years ago,
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld agreed. Today, Cheney
and Rumsfeld appear to be crawling out of their skins
with uncontrollable militarized lust for control of
Iranian oil fields via a U.S. occupied, Iran. The
NEO-CON war drumbeaters have already devised their
plans for the liberation of the people again, this
time Iranian people, and making things all better,
just like they have done in Iraq. Scary stuff, but it
is true. In preparation, the Bush Administration has
primed the mainstream media so effectively that 8 out
of 10 Americans believe Iran poises an immediate
nuclear threat to the United States. The President’s
recent and risky travel to regional nuclear powers,
Pakistan and India, no doubt also served as a
strategic warning to those countries to prepare for
the certain public backlash to be expected once the
U.S. or Israel begins to drop bombs on Iran.
It is also worth noting that in 2000, the World Bank
resumed making loans to Iran. As of June 30, 2004,
the World Bank as made 51 loans valued at $2.6 billion
to Iran. The World Bank gets its funds from the
International Monetary Fund, which in turn, gets its
money from member nation dues / contributions. The
United States is required to contribute $37.2 billion
per year into the IMF. The atrocious Federal Reserve
Banking Cartel orchestrated this money scheme so that
it can continue to print and loan astronomical numbers
of debt notes. If the American people understood that
the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Congress have been
funding many activities of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, most would be skeptical of the federal
government’s current claim that Iran’s 30 year old,
U.S. sanctioned, nuclear program is somehow now an
immediate threat to the security of the United States.
The IMF and the World Bank create just enough degrees
of separation to shield the government from the people
recognizing that the federal government has fed the
dog well that it now claims will bite if we do not
‘put it down’ with a pre-emptive strike.
With Wolfowitz at the helm of the World Bank, one has
to wonder if once again the Federal Reserve has
positioned itself to fund both sides of a warring
conflict. One thing is certain; loaning money to fund
both sides of a war is a perfected craft of the member
banks of the Federal Reserve, which is interested only
in loan collateral and interest payments. Patriotism
is not part of the equation. What is most disturbing
about the relationship between the Fed, IMF, and World
Bank is that the $37.2 billion the U.S. is obligated
to pay to the IMF annually, is actually secured by the
American taxpayer. We the People, and the ability of
the U.S. Congress to confiscate our wealth through
that unconstitutional apparatus referred to as a
federal income tax, makes loaning money to the Islamic
Republic of Iran easy because if Iran defaults on its
World Bank loans, the U.S. portions of the loans work
their way back to the lender of last resort, which is
the U.S. Congress. When the U.S. Congress responds to
failed loans and failed banking institutions, they
assume responsibility for the loan amount, and pass
the burden of repayment onto the American people.
Finally, but very much part of the U.S. government’s
charade aimed at deceiving the American people into
believing that the U.S. has played no part in the
development of Iran or its nuclear power programs, is
the absolute economic threat that Iran poses to the
global value of the U.S. dollar. Unless the U.S.
intervenes, on March 20, 2006 the world will have the
option of purchasing oil with euros instead of dollars
through the opening of the Iranian Oil Bourse. The
Iran Oil Bourse will be the third exchange in which
global oil transactions will be executed. While
financial analysts debate whether such an exchange
operating solely in euros will have the potential to
collapse the U.S. economy, the complete silence of the
mainstream media regarding this most important untold
story can be interpreted as a sign that this suggested
economic threat is real. As the Bush Administration
has proven itself to be the most dishonest, secretive
presidency in the history of the United States, it has
repeatedly demonstrated that the truth about its
motives and agendas can only be found in what is not
being reported to the American people. And if the
Iran nuclear threat rhetoric is the firewall that the
U.S. government is hiding the U.S. dollar global
supremacy behind, than any military action in Iran
will be solely on behalf of the member banks of the
Federal Reserve – at the expense of American sons and
daughters serving in the U.S. military and at the
burden of the U.S. taxpayer who is already indebted to
the federal government to the tune of $28 thousand,
which is each and every American’s current share of
the Federal Reserve / U.S. Congress banking cartel
produced national debt - $28,000 and growing faster
than ever!
Here’s a patriotic challenge and very American gut
check for your consideration: Next time you hold your
children and / or grandchildren, look them in the eye
and explain to them how they are, right at this very
moment, indebted to the federal government of the
United States of America, to the tune of $28,000, and
then ask yourself how you allowed it to happen.
Sobering fact that feels better to ignore, does it
not? But hell, we’re spreading democracy, right? I
don’t think so, and hopefully soon, neither will you.
[1] The White House, Vice President of the United
States, Richard B. Cheney,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/, [Accessed
March 4, 2006]
[2] United States Department of Defense, Biography –
Donald H. Rumsfeld,
http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/rumsfeld.html,
[Accessed March 4, 2006]
[3] Washington Post, Realism, Rewarded, George F.
Will, May 12, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/11/AR2005051101815.html,
[Accessed March 4, 2006]
[4] Washington Post, Past Arguments Don’t Square with
Current Iran Policy, Dafna Linzer, March 27, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3983-2005Mar26.html,
[Accessed March 4, 2006]