Tensions over Iran nuclear issue CIA-Mossad scenario: Analyst

The international hype created over Iran’s nuclear energy program has been in fact a scenario orchestrated by the Israeli spy agency Mossad and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a political analyst says.

In his new book “Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of Iran Nuclear Scare,” which is a comprehensive study of hundreds of US intelligence reports, transcriptions of US Congressmen’s speeches and documents of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Garth Porter concludes that the tensions over the Iranian nuclear energy program are in fact a CIA-Mossad agenda.

The analyst argues that the reality of Iran’s nuclear energy program is in contradiction with the image portrayed by certain countries.

The United States, Israel, and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the IAEA, it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Iran’s nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Iran’s civilian nuclear program has been diverted to contain non-civilian components.

The row over Iran’s nuclear energy program comes against the backdrop of international silence over Israel’s nuclear stockpile. The Israeli regime is widely believed to be the sole possessor of a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East with more than 200 undeclared nuclear warheads.

In its Yearbook 2012, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said that Israel possesses at least 80 “highly operational” nuclear warheads.

Tel Aviv has rejected global calls to join the nuclear NPT and does not allow international inspectors to observe its controversial nuclear program.