Well, it bears repeating. Again. The Iranians never had a nuke, had no near-term prospect of weaponizing their enriched uranium stockpiles, were not hell-bent on blowing up the world and were not two weeks from anything other than still another wolf-crying episode from the one actual “crazy” leader in the middle east. That would be Bibi Netanyahu. Hands down.

But those truths did not stop the Donald from blatant lying and fear-mongering yet again today. And to even go so far as to imply that he has the mullahs by the short hairs.

Trump: “Iran, they are not going to have a nuclear weapon. They are not going to blow up the world. They are crazy.And therefore, they are not happy.

The truth is, however, the Donald surely does not have anyone who is crazy up against any kind of negotiating wall. They Iranians are never going to give up their nukes because by the lights of his own DNI (Director of National Intelligence), Tulsi Gabbard, they don’t have anything to give up—including even scribbled plans on how to make a homemade nuke:

“The IC [U.S. Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon andSupreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.”

The only thing that has been terminated, therefore, is the Supreme Leader who ixnayed the whole nuke scare story 23 years ago! Indeed the result of Israel’s sweeping assassination attack on the entire leadership of the Iranian regime on February 28th was to simply ensconce the remaining hard line leaders more completely in power.

In any event, what is actually getting nuked is the world economy, as illustrated by the graphs for aluminum, nitrogen fertilizer and #2 diesel fuel below. And this is just the beginning of the mayhem yet to follow.

Meanwhile, the Big Lie about Iran’s nuke becomes more and more preposterous with every passing day. Still, the true history needs be told because Washington’s War Machine has been turned loose on the basis of a narrative about the Iranian bomb that doesn’t have a leg to stand on.

So we start with what might be called the curious incident of the dog that didn’t bark in the night, which, of course, remains one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous deductions: The absence of expected action was itself the clue. So apply that logic to Iran’s so-called mad dash to get a nuke, and the silence is deafening.

That is to say, if the mullahs in Tehran were the “mad men”caricatured by Bibi Netanyahu and lip-synced by the Donald, and were single-mindedly obsessed with acquiring a nuclear weapon at any cost, indifferent to sanctions, inspections, or international legitimacy – then one thing is abundantly clear: To wit, the most rational, lowest-tech, and fastest route to a nuke lay not in the labyrinth of uranium enrichment they actually pursued, but in the plutonium path that had already been demonstrated and proven by North Korea.

Source: Antiwar.com