Re: Zarqawi not in Iran, says official
^^ That is sort of the problem. In 1993 Hans Blix and the IAEA were ready to certify the Iraq had no WMD program. Saddams' son-in-law defected and spilled the whole program. Turns out there was a huge program. So once you have been burned by a giant lie, it is sort of hard to believe the next statement even if it is the truth.
Iran is a repressive totalitarian country. Repressive totalitarian countries lie. The question is, when are they really telling the truth. If we had a free press inside of Iran, we might know better. But we don't. So we go on the assumption that everything is a lie.