{"id":84732,"date":"2013-10-20T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=1d5b54253c9df9e85376ad1a2ee917af"},"modified":"2013-10-20T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T12:22:00","slug":"no-nuclear-evidence-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/no-nuclear-evidence-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"No nuclear evidence on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprogress.com\/opinion\/letters_to_the_editor\/no-nuclear-evidence-on-iran\/article_ba41be26-392e-11e3-94f2-001a4bcf6878.html\">The Daily Progress<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"paragraph-0\">There has never been any evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Iran has always denied having such a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><span class=\"paragraph-1\">The U.S. Department of Defense has admitted that currently Iran has no such program. All of the U.S. so-called intelligence agencies believe Iran has no nuclear weapons program. The <em>New York Times<\/em> (January 2012) and the <em>Washington Post<\/em> (December 2011) were compelled to issue corrections after referring to Iran\u2019s nonexistent nuclear weapons program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet here comes Donald Nuechterlein in the Oct. 13 <em>Daily Progress<\/em> referring repeatedly to this mythical nuclear weapons program and claiming, for instance, that \u201cIran can be induced to suspend nuclear weapons development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gee, what a diplomatic accomplishment that would be! You cannot suspend nuclear weapons development unless you are engaged in nuclear weapons development.<\/p>\n<p>David Swanson<\/p>\n<p>Charlottesville<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/node\/4186\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprogress.com\/opinion\/letters_to_the_editor\/no-nuclear-evidence-on-iran\/article_ba41be26-392e-11e3-94f2-001a4bcf6878.html\">The Daily Progress<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>There has never been any evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Iran has always denied having such a thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The U.S. Department of Defense has admitted that currently Iran has no such program. All of the U.S. so-called intelligence agencies believe Iran has no nuclear weapons program. The <em>New York Times<\/em> (January 2012) and the <em>Washington Post<\/em> (December 2011) were compelled to issue corrections after referring to Iran&rsquo;s nonexistent nuclear weapons program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet here comes Donald Nuechterlein in the Oct. 13 <em>Daily Progress<\/em> referring repeatedly to this mythical nuclear weapons program and claiming, for instance, that &ldquo;Iran can be induced to suspend nuclear weapons development.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gee, what a diplomatic accomplishment that would be! You cannot suspend nuclear weapons development unless you are engaged in nuclear weapons development.<\/p>\n<p>David Swanson<\/p>\n<p>Charlottesville<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/node\/4186\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}