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Bravo, Glenn Greenwald! The Russians are very close to Iran's civilian nuclear power program, and they do not think Iran is secretly trying to build nuclear weapons or to be able to build them. Mohammed ElBaradei thinks Iran does not have a secret nuclear weapons development program, and he is the head of the IAEA which conducts frequent surprise inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities.
Why would Obama pander to the Israeli militarists who are trying to frighten and deceive the American public? We got this same sort of smear campaign and fear-mongering in the lead-up to the insane invasion of Iraq.