Some past articles about Iran (to prepare you for the BS later)

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From the Guardian Lost in Translation

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article13641.htm

From AP Iran opens Nuclear Reactor
Note: When reading this remember both the US and Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which authorizes signing nations to use nuclear reactors for power generation and to process the fuel for those reactors. Iran is within its rights under international law to build power reactors and fuel them. In attempting to rescind that right, the United States is now in violation of that treaty.

The warhawks will scream that Heavy Water Reactors are more efficient at making plutonium, which is a key ingredient of implosion type nuclear weapons. However, to recover the plutonium from the spent reactor fuel requires a processing plant as complex and large (and observable) as a weapons-grade uranium enrichment plant, i.e. 16,000 centrifuges in a cascade in a plant covering 700 acres of ground. As of this writing, Iran's agreement with Russia under which the reactor was constructed is that fuel rods are returned to Russia for processing.

In summary, what Iran is doing is exactly what it is allowed to do under treaty the US has signed. As was the case with Iraq, claims that nuclear weapons are being built are undocumented and unproven. There is no evidence that Iran is doing anything other than building power stations.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2F%2Farticle%2F20060826%2FD8JO3EQ00.html

From Raw Story: Congress holds classified hearings, Democrats seek access

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senate_Dems_push_for_Iran_oversight_0622.html

From Jerusalem Post US rejected Iranian overtures on 2003

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355517833&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

From Scoop: Perle reveals US war plans with Iran

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00114.htm

From Counterpunch: Iran, a mnaufactured crisis

http://www.counterpunch.org/peterson06012006.html

OK there's much more, all posted to help you look thoough the propaganda