Don’t Bomb Iran

OMID and the University of Utah have published a  detailed study of an attack  on the main Iranian sites alleged to be involved in a weapons programme .   The 5000 figure is from an attack on 4 nuclear sites, not counting the operational Bushehr power reactor.  It’s conclusions have  reportedly received considerable support from other experts.   [...]

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• 2012-06-13 Iran set to build nuclear-powered submarines
• 2012-06-07 U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No Nuclear Weapons
• Israeli Minister Agrees Ahmadinejad Never Said Israel Must Be Wiped Off the Map – NYTimes.com
• 2012-05-29 The IAEA and Parchin: do the claims add up? SIPRI
• 2012-04-23 I’m escalating all special operations in foreign countries… Israel’s chief of staff
• Iran’s oil exports shut down by cyber attack
• 2012-04-08 US secretly trained MEK ‘terrorists’ in Nevada: Seymour Hersch
• 2012-04-03 Richard Clarke says US built Stuxnet, blew up centrifuges
• 2012-03-30 Israel’s plan to attack Iran put on hold until next year at the earliest – Haaretz
• Azerbaijan denies granting Israel access to air bases on Iran border
• 2012-03-20 War game predicts Israel-Iran conflict disastrous for US
• Majority of Israeli cabinet now support Iran attack
• 2012-03-19 Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
• How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent Iranian Electrical Engineer | Truthout
• 2010-04-03 US intel’s 2009 report on Iran
• 2010-02-11 “Iran does have a nuclear weapons program”: Australian PM
• 2009-12-20 Neutron initiator – smoking gun or forgery?
• 2009-10-17 Bolton suggests Israeli nuclear attack on Iran
• 2009-10-04 Obama Reafirms He Will Keep Israel’s Nukes ‘Secret’
• 2009-10-03 Australia’s uranium enrichment goes commercial – SILEX
• 2009-07-16 Israeli Navy in Indian Ocean for possible attack on Iran
• 2009-07-07 Iran arming Taliban – Washington officials renew false Bush allegations
• 2009-06-27 U.S. grants support Iranian dissidents
• 2009-06-11 Iran’s nuclear weapon ‘blueprints’ found by Western intel services
• 2009-06-10 Did an Aussie sell nukes to Iran?
• 2009-04-14 Does Obama’s Iran envoy believe it is a “demonic society”?
• 2009-02-03 Gaza offensive a “preintroduction” to Iran challenge – Israeli Ambassador
• 2009-01-22 Bush offers Emirates nuclear power by 2017 – they say it’s a possible route to the bomb
• 2008-12-06 Israeli options for Iran attack without US support
• 2008-11-26 Olmert: no US pressure against Iran attack
• 2008-11-24 US pressures Olmert against Iran, Gaza attacks – Time
• 2008-11-11 Main evidence against Iran may be forged – IAEA questions ‘smoking laptop
• 2008-11-10 US forces in Iran, but only for surveillance, not attacks
• 2008-11-09 Mid-east pipelines
• 2008-11-08 Iran developing a nuclear weapon – Obama’s first press conference
• 2008-10-11 Russian scientist ‘helped Iran with nuclear weapons programme’
• 2008-09-05 Sarkozy: Israel could attack Iran’s nuclear weapons capability
• 2008-09-03 Secret Israel-Georgia airfield deal for Iran attack: UPI
• 2008-09-02 Blasts from the Past: Western Support for Iran’s Nuclear program
• Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks
• 2008-07-25 AP wrong: says Iran admitted having nuclear weapons programme in 2002
• 2008-07-21 US top warrior ignores intel, talking of “this issue of nuclear weapons”.
• 2008-07-18 Iran attack likely in 4-7 months, or we’ll nuke them later says Israeli academic
• 2008-07-07 Iran has resumed A-bomb project, says Telegraph
• 2008-07-01 CIA supressed intel that Iran had no weapons program, says ex-agent
• 2008-06-27 Congress to demand blockade of Iran – an act of war
• 2008-06-25 Oil is likely cause of confrontation with Iran – Kissinger
• 2008-06-18 Democrats dropped Iran war bill in 2006 – Israeli lobby pressure, says Ron Paul
• 2008-06-15 “Generous offer rejected” by Iran, says Bush – but they didn’t.
• 2008-06-11 Bush changes wording: “we’ll give diplomacy a chance to work”
• 2008-05-21 Where are Iranian arms in Iraq?
• 2008-05-09 Pentagon resisting Iran attack – about Lebanon
• 2008-05-05 Olmert: we are close to stopping Iran’s nuclear program
• 2008-04-07 Poll: Iranians think bomb unIslamic, but want nuclear power
• 2008-04-03 Al-Qaeda : we’ll attack Iran
• 2008-01-13 Iran arms Taliban says Petraeus with no evidence
• 2008-01-12 CIA in 1974: Israel has bomb and maybe helped Iran with nuclear technology
• 2007-12-10 Israel: War with Iran may be unavoidable
• 2007-12-04 US intel services: Iran halted weapons program in 2003
• 2007-12-02 Iran Holocaust drama is a big TV hit
• 2007-11-25 US Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf
• Iran hints it could halt nuclear enrichment for a quid pro quo
• 2007-11-17 IAEA again confirms Iranian compliance
• 2007-11-16 Decision time for US? IAEA says Iran one year from bomb?
• 2007-10-26 US oil supply OK if Straits of Hormuz closed?
• 2007-10-17 Israel and US tell IAEA nothing of bombed Syrian ‘nuclear programme’
• 2007-09-28 Iraq: only 83 Iranians among 25,000 American prisoners?
• 2007-09-27 Only 8% of Americans want Iran attack
• 2007-09-24 Iran calls for UN inspection of Israel’s nuclear facilities – Israel refuses
• Israelis claim they seized N. Korean nuclear material in Syria
• 2007-09-20 Stratfor says Iran has nuclear weapons – no evidence
• 2007-09-19 WMD kill dozens of Iran and Sryia’s troops while loading Scuds – proof?
• 2007-09-18 Did Israel strike North Korean nuclear facility in Syria? No
• World could live with nuclear Iran – US top middle eastern commander
• 2007-09-17 Condi (and France?) starting to support Iran strike
• 2007-09-14 Iran could have bomb by now – Bolton’s lie
• 2007-09-13 Israel bombs ‘nuclear’ site in Syria- US happy
• 2007-09-12 IAEA chief walks out of IAEA board meeting during EU speech on Iran
• 2007-09-11 Iran will get bomb by mid 2009 and cannot be deterred: Netanyahu
• 2007-09-08 El Baradei attacks US critics: ‘rogue regulator’ hears ‘drums of war’ like Iraq
• 2007-09-03 Nuclear watchdog chief warns of ‘last chance’ for Iran
• Pentagon ‘Three-Day Blitz’ Plan for Iran – 1200 targets
• 2007-08-30 IAEA August 07 report and workplan resolving outstanding questions by November
• 2007-08-07 Bush lies: says Iran has announced a nuclear weapons program
• Iran gives Taliban hi-tech weapons says Times
• 2007-08-06 Shiites armed & trained by Iran responsible for 75% of Baghdad attacks: US commander
• 2007-07-13 IAEA: Iran agrees to nuclear concessions
• 2007-06-22 Israel air force training for strikes against Iranian nuclear targets
• 2007-06-12 Risk of nuclear war rising: SIPRI
• 2007-06-07 No attack until Nov 2007 – Israel’s deputy PM
• 2007-05-13 US experts 98% certain Iran got nuclear bombs – in 1992
• Diplomats mislead press: IAEA denies reports that Iran blocked inspections
• 2007-05-03 Obama: all experts think Iran developing bomb
• NPT talks suspended over Iran objection
• Iran arrests former nuclear negotiator
• 2007-04-18 Russia unable to finish Iranian nuclear plant by 2007 deadline
• 2007-04-02 Iranian alleges incursion by US warplanes
• 2007-03-31 US intelligence professionals warn of brinkmanship in unchartered waters
• 2007-03-30 ‘Fake’ Iraq – Iran maritime border underpins UK kidnap claims says ex-UK ambassador
• 2007-03-25 Democrats allow Bush to attack Iran without Congressional approval
• 2007-03-20 Russia stops uranium fuel export to Iran
• 2007-03-19 Iran attacks UK’s Trident nuclear arsenal modernisation plans
• 2007-03-11 Russia & Iran still debating March nuclear fuel delivery to Bushehr
• Iran could build bomb in 2007 – Frank Barnaby
• 2007-03-03 Play it Again, Sam! – cartoon by Leon Kuhn
• 2007-02-25 US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack
• 2007-02-23 Most US Iran intelligence to IAEA ‘is incorrect’
• “I cant think it would be right” to attack Iran: Blair
• 2007-02-20 Iran 6 months from large scale enrichment, Trident does not help: El Baradei
• 2007-02-19 US ‘Iran attack plans’ revealed to BBC, (but not to Blair)
• 2007-02-12 US sending third carrier to Gulf, says Newsweek
• 2007-02-10 Nobody planning Iran attack: honest Tony Blair
• Iran poll: 50% expect war, 66% no to nuclear weapons, 84% yes to enrichment
• 2007-02-04 Ayatollah not dead, as neocon ‘scholar’ reported.
• Iranian ‘capability’ would kill Israel demographically without pushing a button: Israel’s main fear, says defence minister
• 2007-02-03 “Israel does not intend to use military action” : Peres on Iran
• 2007-02-01 Bushehr: fuel from Russia in March, startup in September
• 2007-01-28 Saudis said to be targetting Iran’s economy by pumping more oil
• 2007-01-27 Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders
• 2007-01-26 NATO commander more worried by Iran strike than Iraq surge
• Gulf states would support US strike on Iran – MENL report
• Condi dismisses report that N. Korea helping Iran prepare nuke test
• 2007-01-25 Iran nuclear test this year with Korean help? UK Telegraph
• 2007-01-21 Iran’s president loses grip as ayatollah offers nuclear deal
• 2007-01-20 White House refuses talks with Iran again, rejects Congressional approval for attack
• 2007-01-18 Iran did not attack US navy in Gulf
• 2007-01-06 Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran: Revealed to Sunday Times
• 2007-01-05 Iran war ‘in 2 years’: senior Bush advisor
• 2007-01-04 ISOG – shadowy Washington unit quietly developing plans for Iran
• 2007-01-03 Iran tried to get uranium by arming Somali Islamists
• Israel asks UN chief to expel Iran
• 2007-01-01 The case for Iran – its offers which have been rejected
• 2006-12-29 “US says captured Iranians linked to Iraq attacks” but later releases them
• 2006-12-21 US and UK send extra ships and aircraft to Gulf in provocative ‘signal’ to Iran
• 2006-12-19 Iran four years from bomb – 2010 – Mossad head
• 2006-12-17 Bush gags CIA critic of Iran policy – “despicable and unAmerican”
• 2006-12-16 Iran could hide sensitive nuclear work if attacked: senior official
• 2006-12-12 Arab-Iranian nuclear arms race begins – with Israeli support?
• 2006-12-05 More US lies: Iran should stop developing nuclear weapons
• 2006-11-21 Iran has built nuclear weapon triggers, says Israeli intelligence without evidence
• 2006-11-20 Bush: I would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran
• 2006-11-19 Cheney rejects secret CIA report finding no Iranian nuclear weapons programme: Hersh
• 2006-11-17 Denmark gives Iran 10kg highly enriched uranium – mid 1970s
• Iran interest in Australian uranium purchase: 1974
• 2006-11-15 Official says U.S. may mull pre-emptive Iran strike
• 2006-11-14 Argentine report casts doubt on Iran role in ’94 bomb
• 2006-10-28 Iran ‘six months’ from nuclear bomb – incorrect quote of Israel DM from AFP, Australian
• 2006-09-15 Iran secretly enrichs uranium with lasers, says ‘resistance’ spokesperson
• 2006-09-14 UN: Congressional report on Iran ‘dishonest’ and ‘outrageous’
• Iran’s missile cooperation with Israel in 1970
• 2006-09-11 Iranian Missile Test Was Faked, Pentagon Says Quietly
• 2006-09-09 Iran-Iraq border dispute: shelling, prisoners taken 100km from Baghdad
• Iran backing militants in NE Iraq? – No proof says US general
• 2006-09-03 Israel, US hawks plan for war with Iran and Syria
• 2006-08-29 Bushehr reactor delayed: now scheduled to go critical late 2007
• 2006-08-25 Israel may ‘go it alone’ in attack on Iran’s nukes
• 2006-08-22 Iran violates treaty, refuses UN inspectors…well, not really
• 2006-08-21 Bush ‘helped Israeli attack on Lebanon’ as prelude to Iran attack: Hersh
• 2006-08-19 Two in three Israelis back attack on Iran reactor : Poll
• 2006-08-18 No evidence Iran active in Iraq: US general, contradicting the ambassador
• 2006-08-09 Iran has forces in Iraq: US ambassador.
• 2006-08-08 Congo denies uranium shipment to Iran
• 2006-07-02 Solar electricity in Iran half the price of nuclear?
• Iran: Solar power to boost efficiency of gas power plant in Yazd
• Iran constructs first wind power plant in Armenia
• 2006-06-23 “Wipe Israel off the map” – Ahmadinejad never said that
• 2006-06-15 A bomb every 16 days from secret Iran enrichment plant to open in 2007
• US poll: 21% think Iran requires immediate military action. 55% think diplomacy will work
• 2006-06-05 Conventional bunker buster bombs could destroy Natanz enrichment facilities
• 2006-06-02 Bolton: “This is put up time or shut up time for Iran”
• 2006-06-01 Top US senator calls for NATO “ring of deterrence around Iran.
• EU3+3 offer to reaffirm Iran’s “inalienable right” to nuclear program June 2006
• 2006-05-30 Israel: Iran transfers new 200km-range rocket to Hizbullah
• Khamenei in Control (not Ahmadinejad) and Ready to Haggle
• 2006-05-25 Iran legislates Jews must wear yellow badges – fabrication
• 2006-05-18 Ex UK foreign minister endorses military action if Iran continues enrichment
• Doubts over Iran nuclear capacity – enrichment may not be so advanced
• 2006-05-16 US spells out plan to bomb Iran – up to 400 targets
• 2006-05-07 Brazil starts uranium enrichment, like Iran, but US happy it is “not thinking” of nuclear weapons
• Iran President Has Little Impact on Foreign Policy – Forbes magazine
• 2006-04-21 Iran still years away from having nukes: US intel chief Negroponte
• 2006-04-20 Iran is cause of high petrol prices, by defiance of its ‘nuclear weapons obligations’ – Australian PM
• 2006-04-16 Iran’s secret military enrichment plant: wild claims about Neyshabour
• 2006-04-15 Iran “thought to have” bought 250 nukes from Ukraine: Jerusalem Post
• 2006-04-08 The Iran Plans – some US officials seriously planning to bomb Iran, maybe with nukes, Seymour Hersh NYT
• 2006-04-03 Hans Blix: Iran five years from a bomb
• 2006-03-27 Iran bought a bomb ten years ago from black market
• Iran uses schools for nuclear weapons research
• 2006-03-23 Afghan FM says Iran helps on terrorism … US says it helps Al Qaeda
• 2006-03-15 Propaganda Bush quote
• No evidence that Iran behind bombs, forces in Iraq: top U.S. general
• Deja Vu all over Iran.. Iran/Iraq similarities by Robert Dreyfuss
• 2006-03-10 Iran a test of UN system – Australian PM Howard
• 2006-03-09 Israel has US approval for Iran attack, and can do it – Martin Indyk, ex-US ambassador
• IAEA can not “conclude that there are no undeclared materials or activities in Iran” or in Iraq
• All those allegations – a discussion
• 2006-03-08 Australian navy “repels” Iranian “gunboats” near Iraqi oil rig as Rumsfeld claims Iranian forces operate in Iraq
• Iran offers to suspend full-scale uranium enrichment for up to two years, in Russian deal
• 2006-03-05 NATO may help US airstrikes, Israel special forces from Iraq have found secret sites, CIA talking to Turkey
• Cheney daughter leads propaganda war on mullahs
• 2006-02-26 Iran has more missile than any others in middle east says Negroponte (unfinished)
• Is the Bush Administration Planning a Nuclear Holocaust? Use of mini-nukes for “non-compliance” Michel Chossudovsky
• 2006-02-24 No plans for use of force – Bush pre-Iraq
• Iran supplied roadside bomb shaped charges to Iraqi insurgents – later denied (unfinished)
• Neocons sabotaged Iran’s help on Al-Qaeda / Afghanistan
• 2006-02-23 US refuses to negotiate with Iran, after German leader asks them to.
• 2006-02-22 US blew chance for Iran deal in 2003.. whistle blower reveals Iran’s May 2003 offer
• 2006-02-20 US started Iran’s nuclear program in 1970s
• Estimates of soonest Iran bomb over the years: analysis by Globalsecurity.org
• 2006-02-17 Poll Feb 14 2006: 80% of Americans think Iran would nuke USA if it gets the bomb
• 2006-02-16 France and UK say Iran has secret nuclear arms programme
• 2006-02-15 Iran is NOT in breach of its IAEA obligations – Prather
• 2006-02-13 Iran’s new oil market trading in Euros – a threat to the petrodollar?
• US planning to nuke Iran after another 9/11, even if Iran not involved
• Israeli army August 2005 esitmate :Iranian nuke by 2012, or 2008 if “all goes well”
• Opposition sources say Iran has dozens of tunnels to hide nuclear weapons program
• US Army: Israel has no military option against Iranian targets, US does? Iranian bomb by
• Mossad: bomb within two years: IDF: before the start of the next decade
• Australia pressuring IAEA over Iran
• CIA gave Iran fake bomb design in 2000, says new book
• “Use of force comes up whenever we talk to Washington” on Iran, say Euro diplomats
• 2006-02-12 Iran plant ‘has restarted its nuclear bomb-making equipment’ – Telegraph
• US prepares military blitz against Iran’s nuclear sites
• US 2006 Annual Threat Assessment: Iran has a weapons program, a clandestine enrichment program for two decades in violation of IAEA safeguards, but no estimate for an Iranian bomb
• 2006-02-08 David Albright / ISIS estimates 2009 as “worst case” earliest Iranian uranium bomb, likely longer
• 2006-02-07 US Intelligence: Fear of US a main drive of Iranian nuclear weapons policy (not agressive intent)
• 2006-01-03 Iran warns against Kuwaiti plan to drill in gas field claimed by Iran
• 2005-12-09 Israeli plan for possible war in March 2006 – Iran getting satellite and anti-missile capability
• 2005-11-30 Irans’ bomb: June 2006 to June 2007 – says US proliferation thinktank in Nov 2005
• 2005-11-18 Iran explains itself in large advertisement in New Your Times
• 2005-10-30 Iran bomb 12 to 48 months away, learn to live with it: US Army Strategic Studies Institute
• 2005-10-28 Blair hints at military action after Iran’s ‘disgraceful’ taunt
• 2005-10-15 Iran bomb Oct 2005 to Oct 2009, military strike self-defeating says US Army Strategic Studies Institute in 2005
• 2005-09-23 Saudi foreign minister: We fought a war to keep Iran out of Iraq, and now US is handing it to Iran
• 2005-08-18 Iran’s bomb about 2015, if at all: US National Intelligence Estimate, 2005: Aug 2005
• 2005-08-14 Nukes forbidden under Islam – Khamenei fatwa
• 2005-08-09 Ahmadinejad was a hostage taker in US embassy siege – false
• 2005-08-02 US intelligence 2005: “don’t know” if Iran has weapons program, but “we are sceptical”; if they do, it will take 10 years
• 2005-06-21 Scott Ritter opinion – US war with Iran has already begun – 2005
• 2005-04-28 Bush: Russia to give Iran highly enriched uranium – wrong
• 2005-02-23 Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz support massive Iranian nuke program – in 1976
• 2005-02-07 Australia a ‘mediator’ between US and Iran
• 2005-01-26 Blair refuses to rule out military strike on Iran
• Israeli Def Min: Iranian nuclear power a “threat to the free world”
• 2005-01-03 Neocons say only pre-emptive strike will work on Iran
• 2004-12-20 Why Iran wants nuclear weapons – Christian Science Monitor
• 2004-11-30 Iran has agreed to suspend its nuclear weapons program … What we’re interested in is them terminating a nuclear weapons program in a verifiable fashion- Bush
• 2004-11-17 Enrichment suspension only for a few months, says Iran in 2004
• 2004-11-16 Pakistan hinders IAEA investigation of Iran nuclear program
• 2004-03-10 “Iran has no nuclear weapons program” “..take a lesson from Iraq” El Baradei
• 2003-12-09 CIA says IAEA safeguards will probably prevent Iran building bomb – except if Iran has secret facilities
• 2003-11-23 Israel serious about pre-emptive strike on Iran, Bushehr “too big” for nuclear power only, point of no return in 2004
• 2003-10-10 Israel planning attack on secret Iran nuclear sites; leaks warning they have nuclear missiles on submarines with US Harpoon missiles; Iran can already make weapons grade uranium
• 2003-09-19 top US offical: Iran has bioweapon missile ‘capability’, and is in violation of NPT – Sept 2003
• 2003-06-10 2003: G8 endorses military action to counter proliferation, says US – G8 Evian summit declaration
• 2003-05-15 Anthrax, smallpox, plague bombs being made by Iran, say NCRI exiles. No evidence presented
• 2000-06-18 Iran nuke missile by 2002 – says Israel in 2000
• 1998-07-01 Iran has ex-Soviet bombs claims Israel, will have its own by 2003-5, Israel needs nukes on subs
• 1997-06-30 Israel defined as a nuclear proliferator in US trade law
• 1988-07-03 Iranian civilian airliner shot down by US warship in Iranian waters, in 1988 during Saddam’s war with Iran
• 1988-04-14 US destroyed half Iran’s navy in two day battle during Iran-Iraq war
• 1987-03-28 Iraq attacks Iran’s Bushehr reactor seven times between 1984 and 1987
• 1984-08-09 Western Arming of Saddam with Chemical Weapons, active intelligence, during Iran-Iraq war (incomplete)
• 0205-03-23 March 2005: Iran offers permanent onsite IAEA inspections, beyond the Additional Protocol, the West never responded