“There is no need to beat around the bush,” said former Iranian politician Ali Motahari as he detailed the terrifying reality that Iran has always had intentions to build a nuclear bomb. Everyone except progressive liberal leadership that continuously attempts to “negotiate” with Iran understands the harsh reality.
Maybe an Iranian official holding no bars and being brutally honest will wake up the delusional left. In an interview with ISCA News, Motahari explained the nuclear bomb was to be used as a “means of intimidation.”
The interview was captured and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). “When we began our nuclear activity, our goal was indeed to build a bomb” he said. “There is no need to beat around the bush.”
The objective of building the bomb was pursued and supported by “the entire regime, or at least, the people who started this activity.” Times of Israel reports that when asked by the interviewer if the people behind Iran’s nuclear program intended to use the bomb, Motahari responded, “no, we wanted to build it as a means of intimidation,” and he used a verse from the Quran, to “strike fear in the hearts of the enemy of Allah.”
Motahari also said Iran failed in not being able to keep its Nuclear Program a secret. “With regard to what we started… If we could have kept it [a secret] until we performed a [nuclear] test, then it would have been a done deal. Like in Pakistan,” he said, arguing that countries like Pakistan and North Korea, believed to possess nuclear bombs, “are taken into consideration” on the global stage.
US involvement in Iranian affairs goes back a long way. The CIA helped to overthrow the democratically-elected prime minister in 1953 (Mossadeq), and install the Shah, who we helped become a dictator (surprise, surprise!). This was done because British Petroleum didn’t want to give up the deal where they got to keep 85% of the oil they were taking out of Iranian soil, and embargoed Iranian oil (Abadan Crisis). After the coup, BP got 40%, US companies got 40%, and the rest of the oil funds went to other foreign actors… The United States provided the new regime with financial support (equivalent to billions of dollars today), and then helped them establish their nuclear program in 1957. Later, the US even provided Iran with enriched uranium.
After 26 years of American influence on their politics, there was a revolution in 1979 (surprise!) by islamic extremists (surprise!) and the first ayatollah declared America “the great satan”. Regan declared Iran to be a state sponsor of terrorism, and relations soured from there.
But have no doubt, we did this to ourselves. We fomented a coup of a democratically-elected government to establish a dictatorship, meddled in foreign politics to secure oil revenues, and willingly shared nuclear technology. From the Iran-Iraq war and the Iran Contra Affair, to the “Axis of Evil” speech and American covert operations in Iran, we have made plenty of mistakes in this international relationship. JCPOA wasn’t perfect, but pulling out of it was a strategic error as Iran has now had years to refine additional uranium and work on missile technology. A president who billed himself as a master of negotiation couldn’t save the deal or work out something better… it’s really too bad. But this situation is so messy now that I don’t know where to even start repairing relations between America and Iran.