THREAD: As we all know from the 2003 invasion of Iraq, propaganda is a prelude to war - and the propaganda around Iran's nuclear program has persistently continued throughout the Bush, Obama, Trump, and now the Biden administration as they build up a case for war.

But Iran is not building nuclear weapons, according to both the 2007 and the 2011 National Intelligence Estimate, a compilation of data evaluated by 17 US intelligence agencies, which concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003.

In 2017, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister said that it is a "moral responsibility" of states to work toward nuclear disarmament, adding that Iran remains committed to global nuclear disarmament, which he said was a "legal, political and moral responsibility."

In December 2020, Iran's envoy in Vienna said Iran supports the "general and complete disarmament" of the world's nuclear weapons stocks "under strict and effective international control."

On January 1st, the BBC reported that Iran intends to start enriching uranium to 20% purity, which "remains short of the 90% required to make a nuclear bomb." Under the 2015 agreement, Iran was supposed to keep enrichment below 4%, but Trump scrapped the deal & imposed sanctions.

It's also important to note that while Obama did implement the 2015 Iran deal, he also spent his first term imposing brutal economic sanctions against Iran, murdering Iranian scientists, & launching cyber attacks - an act of war by the Pentagon's definition.

Iran has called for the creation of "nuclear weapons free zones" in the Middle East on multiple occasions - 2006, 2008, and 2015, to name a few instances.

Iran was also one of the original 62 signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The focus on Iran's nuclear program overshadows any focus on Israel's nuclear weapons program, a program which remains incredibly secretive. Most estimates suggest Israel has more/less than 100 nukes.

Unlike Iran, Israel is NOT a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The US & Israel have been fearmongering about Iran being days, weeks, months, or years away from producing nuclear weapons for decades.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminent-Iran-nuclear-threat-A-timeline-of-warnings-since-1979/Earliest-warnings-1979-84

We can choose to believe career warmongers Antony Blinken & Joe Biden, or we can choose to believe the overwhelming evidence that Iran is not building nukes, recognizing that this is yet another propaganda campaign to instigate yet another war in an oil-rich country.