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Why does Iran announce these situations? Covering them up would seem more typical of a secretive nuclear program.
by totalZero 6y ago
Why does Iran announce these situations? Covering them up would seem more typical of a secretive nuclear program.
- michaelt 6y agoMost countries, if they could, would like to advance one narrative on the world stage and a separate one to their citizens. Perhaps this isn't aimed at us westerners - and instead it's aimed at Iranians. The message being "Yet more evidence that our country is under constant assault by the forces of evil who are threatened by our growing strength. They are the cause of any problems you see, support our homeland security and military" There's also a message for possible allies in the region: "As you can see, Western countries don't respect our sovereignty, any respect they claim to have for yours is an illusion, show solidarity with us fellow autocratic religious oil-producing countries"
- ALittleLight 6y agoExcept for the "evil" part, isn't that exactly what's happening?
- sofixa 6y agoYep. And "evil" is entirely subjective, one can easily say that Israel is evil for human rights and international law violations, and a similar argument can easily be made against the US, Turkey, UK, France, Saudi Arabia Iran as well.
- totalZero 6y agoI mean, the "growing strength" part and the "cause of any problems" part would be pretty farfetched in any serious conversation. Iran has been on its back foot ever since Obama left the picture because US policy got far more hawkish, and the fact that Iran shot down a passenger plane and tried to lie about it was a self-own. The Iranian people don't seem to blame foreign governments, they blame the Islamic regime. Oil prices have bumped back up but their crash was damaging to Iran's revenue expectations. The country was hit very hard by the virus and it's hard to blame the West for something that came from Wuhan. The government there doesn't choose its narrative based on what's true or believable. When you think of it as a mafia that controls the country and presents a caricature of representative government while stealing and killing, things start to make more sense.
- chefkoch 6y agoAt the end of the day the would like to have their sanctions removed in exchange for shutting down their nuclear program. And it also feeds the narrative of beeing the victim of the other states beeing the aggressors.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> feeds the narrative of beeing the victim of the other states beeing the aggressors Does it? Someone blew up my secret nuclear enrichment facility isn’t exactly an endearing pitch.
- effie 6y agoIt isn't secret at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natanz#Nuclear_facility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natanz#Nuclear_facility
- laurent92 6y agoStupid question, but why isn’t it bombed (or all trucks coming/leaving targeted)? As far as I know, it is “illegal” (whatever the international equivalent is) to attempt to acquire the nuclear bomb. Which triggers the question, how did France obtain leniency from international powers when it gave the nuclear bomb to Israel in the 1960ies? Who decides what is legal? And who decides that Iran’s facility is not “slated for immediate removal”, given it seems USA is down to targeting cigarette smugglers with drones in other countries, and nuclear bomb seems a bit more threatening?