“There is no evidence of nuclear threat from Iran.” – ex-UK ambassador.

West Jerusalem claims Tehran was on the brink of obtaining nuclear weapons to justify the latest attacks.

There’s no evidence that Iran poses a nuclear threat to Israel, former UK Ambassador to Iran Richard Dalton has said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Iran was on the verge of developing nuclear weapons shortly after Israel launched air strikes on Iranian territory last week.

Speaking to Sky News last week, Dalton said, ’There is no evidence that Iran was on the brink of nuclear weaponization.

He noted that US intelligence shows no change in the basic assessment that Tehran has decided to develop nuclear weapons by its own defense doctrine, which is to avoid weapons of mass destruction.

‘So, we are entitled to disbelieve Netanyahu’s claims that there was some recent change in Iranian policy and behavior until evidence is put in the public domain,’ Dalton said.

Israel began bombing Iran last Friday, claiming that the country was nearing the completion of a nuclear bomb. Iran denied the accusations and responded to the Israeli military operation with waves of drone and missile strikes on the Jewish state.

According to a Washington-based Iranian human rights group, the Israeli assault has so far killed 585 people, including 239 civilians, and wounded more than 1,300.

Israel’s Government Press Office reported on Wednesday that Iran’s retaliatory missile attacks claimed the lives of 24 people, with 804 injured. It added that around 3,800 people have been evacuated from various areas due to ongoing tensions.

In 2015, Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an international accord with the US and European powers that limited uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief.

In 2018, then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the deal, reimposing all sanctions, which prompted Iran to gradually withdraw from its own commitments.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found no evidence that Iran is making a ’systematic effort’ to produce a nuclear weapon, according to the agency’s chief, Rafael Grossi.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Grossi said that, currently, ’there is this competition about who is wrong or right about the time that would be needed’ for Iran to produce a nuclear bomb.
‘Certainly, it was not for tomorrow, maybe not a matter of years,’ he noted.

The Iranians may have enough enriched uranium, but to turn it into a nuclear weapon, technology and extensive testing are also required, the IAEA chief explained.

Despite inspecting Iran’s nuclear sites for more than two decades, the UN watchdog did not have… any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon on the part of Iran, he said.

Russia has condemned Israel’s airstrikes and called for de-escalation, warning that strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure could trigger a ’nuclear catastrophe.’ 

In a statement on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Israel’s attacks on peaceful atomic sites violate international law and threaten global stability.

Senator Mark Warner says President Donald Trump is ignoring spy agencies’ data on Iran, which still shows no move toward nuclear weapons.

US intelligence still assesses that Iran, despite stockpiling enriched uranium, has not taken steps to develop nuclear weapons, a view which has remained unchanged since March, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat.

US President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday, however, that he believes Tehran was “very close” to obtaining nuclear weapons at the time of Israel’s recent military strikes.

His statement contradicts earlier remarks by his own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who told lawmakers that Iran “is not building” one.

The Iranian authorities insist that their nuclear program is purely peaceful and that they have every right to pursue it.

In an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, the vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, said senators were briefed this week, following the Israeli strikes, that US spy agencies still find no evidence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.

He criticized Trump’s remarks as “foreign policy by tweet,” calling them irresponsible and perplexing, given that they contradict the intelligence briefings lawmakers have received.

POINTS TO PONDER: ‘For while the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb goyim.

It doesn’t even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine to live there; all they want is a central headquarters for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.’ ~ Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf’, Volume I, Chapter 11, pp. 324-325 – HM edition.

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